05 Sep 2013
September 5, 2013

Natural Scene Statistics Account for the Representation of Scene Categories

Neuroscience

Jack Gallant and crew used FMRI to examine scene processing in the human brain.  They found that scenes activated many regions of anterior visual cortex and that the scene categories capture the co-occurrence of the objects that compose the scenes.

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The Miller Lab uses experimental and theoretical approaches to study the neural basis of the high-level cognitive functions that underlie complex goal-directed behavior. ekmillerlab.mit.edu