Task-dependent spatial processing in the visual cortex.

Autor: Bertonati G; Unit for Visually Impaired People (U-VIP), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy.; Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering (DIBRIS), Università degli Studi di Genova, Genoa, Italy., Amadeo MB; Unit for Visually Impaired People (U-VIP), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy., Campus C; Unit for Visually Impaired People (U-VIP), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy., Gori M; Unit for Visually Impaired People (U-VIP), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Human brain mapping [Hum Brain Mapp] 2023 Dec 01; Vol. 44 (17), pp. 5972-5981. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Oct 09.
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.26489
Abstrakt: To solve spatial tasks, the human brain asks for support from the visual cortices. Nonetheless, representing spatial information is not fixed but depends on the reference frames in which the spatial inputs are involved. The present study investigates how the kind of spatial representations influences the recruitment of visual areas during multisensory spatial tasks. Our study tested participants in an electroencephalography experiment involving two audio-visual (AV) spatial tasks: a spatial bisection, in which participants estimated the relative position in space of an AV stimulus in relation to the position of two other stimuli, and a spatial localization, in which participants localized one AV stimulus in relation to themselves. Results revealed that spatial tasks specifically modulated the occipital event-related potentials (ERPs) after the onset of the stimuli. We observed a greater contralateral early occipital component (50-90 ms) when participants solved the spatial bisection, and a more robust later occipital response (110-160 ms) when they processed the spatial localization. This observation suggests that different spatial representations elicited by multisensory stimuli are sustained by separate neurophysiological mechanisms.
(© 2023 The Authors. Human Brain Mapping published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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