Processing of visual and non-visual naturalistic spatial information in the "parahippocampal place area".

Autor: Häusler CO; Psychoinformatics Lab, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain & Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany. der.haeusler@gmx.net.; Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany. der.haeusler@gmx.net., Eickhoff SB; Psychoinformatics Lab, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain & Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany.; Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany., Hanke M; Psychoinformatics Lab, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain & Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany.; Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Scientific data [Sci Data] 2022 Apr 01; Vol. 9 (1), pp. 147. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Apr 01.
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01250-4
Abstrakt: The "parahippocampal place area" (PPA) in the human ventral visual stream exhibits increased hemodynamic activity correlated with the perception of landscape photos compared to faces or objects. Here, we investigate the perception of scene-related, spatial information embedded in two naturalistic stimuli. The same 14 participants were watching a Hollywood movie and listening to its audio-description as part of the open-data resource studyforrest.org. We model hemodynamic activity based on annotations of selected stimulus features, and compare results to a block-design visual localizer. On a group level, increased activation correlating with visual spatial information occurring in the movie is overlapping with a traditionally localized PPA. Activation correlating with semantic spatial information occurring in the audio-description is more restricted to the anterior PPA. On an individual level, we find significant bilateral activity in the PPA of nine individuals and unilateral activity in one individual. Results suggest that activation in the PPA generalizes to spatial information embedded in a movie and an auditory narrative, and may call for considering a functional subdivision of the PPA.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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