Supplementary Material Fortunato_R1.docx from The more numerous the longer: how the integration between numerosity and time leads to a common neural response

Autor: Fortunato, Gianfranco, Togoli, Irene, Bueti, Domenica
Rok vydání: 2023
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.22699368.v1
Popis: If you are stuck in a traffic jam, the more numerous the queuing cars are, the longer you expect to wait. Time and numerosity are stimulus dimensions often associated in the same percept and whose interaction can lead to misjudgements. At brain level it is unclear to which extent time and numerosity recruit same/different neural populations and how their perceptual integration leads to changes in these populations' responses. Here we used high-spatial resolution fMRI with neural model-based analyses to investigate how the topographic representation of numerosity and time change when these dimensions are varied together on the same visual stimulus in a congruent (the more numerous the items, the longer the display time) or incongruent manner. Compared to baseline conditions, where only one dimension was changed at a time, the variation of both stimulus dimensions led to changes in neural population responses that either became more sensitive to the two features or to one of them. Magnitude integration led also to degradation of topographies and shifts in response preferences. These changes were more pronounced in the comparison between parietal and frontal maps. Our results while pointing out to partially distinct representations of time and numerosity show a common neural response to magnitude integration.
Databáze: OpenAIRE