Visual priming of inverted and rotated objects.

2009 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 837-848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara J. Knowlton ◽  
Sean P. McAuliffe ◽  
Chase J. Coelho ◽  
John E. Hummel
2010 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 1081-1081
Author(s):  
Barbara J. Knowlton ◽  
Sean P. McAuliffe ◽  
Chase J. Coelho ◽  
John E. Hummel

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trent Welsh ◽  
Anita Sarno ◽  
Gabriele Gratton ◽  
Monica Fabiani
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PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. e0144730 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiong Jiang ◽  
Yang Jiang ◽  
Raja Parasuraman
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PLoS ONE ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. e14087 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clayton Hickey ◽  
Leonardo Chelazzi ◽  
Jan Theeuwes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulio Matteucci ◽  
Benedetta Zattera ◽  
Rosilari Bellacosa Marotti ◽  
Davide Zoccolan

AbstractComputing global motion direction of extended visual objects is a hallmark of primate high-level vision. Although neurons selective for global motion have also been found in mouse visual cortex, it remains unknown whether rodents can combine multiple motion signals into global, integrated percepts. To address this question, we trained two groups of rats to discriminate either gratings (G group) or plaids (i.e., superpositions of gratings with different orientations; P group) drifting horizontally along opposite directions. After the animals learned the task, we applied a visual priming paradigm, where presentation of the target stimulus was preceded by the brief presentation of either a grating or a plaid. The extent to which rat responses to the targets were biased by such prime stimuli provided a measure of the spontaneous, perceived similarity between primes and targets. We found that gratings and plaids, when uses as primes, were equally effective at biasing the perception of plaid direction for the rats of the P group. Conversely, for G group, only the gratings acted as effective prime stimuli, while the plaids failed to alter the perception of grating direction. To interpret these observations, we simulated a decision neuron reading out the representations of gratings and plaids, as conveyed by populations of either component or pattern cells (i.e., local or global motion detectors). We concluded that the findings for the P group are highly consistent with the existence of a population of pattern cells, playing a functional role similar to that demonstrated in primates. We also explored different scenarios that could explain the failure of the plaid stimuli to elicit a sizable priming magnitude for the G group. These simulations yielded testable predictions about the properties of motion representations in rodent visual cortex at the single-cell and circuitry level, thus paving the way to future neurophysiology experiments.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Pyatigorskaya ◽  
Matteo Maran ◽  
Emiliano Zaccarella

Language comprehension proceeds at a very fast pace. It is argued that context influences the speed of language comprehension by providing informative cues for the correct processing of the incoming linguistic input. Priming studies investigating the role of context in language processing have shown that humans quickly recognise target words that share orthographic, morphological, or semantic information with their preceding primes. How syntactic information influences the processing of incoming words is however less known. Early syntactic priming studies reported faster recognition for noun and verb targets (e.g., apple or sing) following primes with which they form grammatical phrases or sentences (the apple, he sings). The studies however leave open a number of questions about the reported effect, including the degree of automaticity of syntactic priming, the facilitative versus inhibitory nature, and the specific mechanism underlying the priming effect—that is, the type of syntactic information primed on the target word. Here we employed a masked syntactic priming paradigm in four behavioural experiments in German language to test whether masked primes automatically facilitate the categorization of nouns and verbs presented as flashing visual words. Overall, we found robust syntactic priming effects with masked primes—thus suggesting high automaticity of the process—but only when verbs were morpho-syntactically marked (er kau-t; he chew-s). Furthermore, we found that, compared to baseline, primes slow down target categorisation when the relationship between prime and target is syntactically incorrect, rather than speeding it up when the prime-target relationship is syntactically correct. This argues in favour of an inhibitory nature of syntactic priming. Overall, the data indicate that humans automatically extract abstract syntactic features from word categories as flashing visual words, which has an impact on the speed of successful language processing during language comprehension.


1998 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. 900-907 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luc Boutsen ◽  
Koen Lamberts ◽  
Karl Verfaillie
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