Task-irrelevant semantic properties of objects impinge on sensory representations within the early visual cortex

Nah, Joseph C., Malcolm, George L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4892-5961 and Shomstein, Sarah (2021) Task-irrelevant semantic properties of objects impinge on sensory representations within the early visual cortex. Cerebral Cortex Communications, 2 (3). ISSN 2632-7376

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Abstract

Objects can be described in terms of low-level (e.g., boundaries) and high-level properties (e.g., object semantics). While recent behavioral findings suggest that the influence of semantic relatedness between objects on attentional allocation can be independent of task-relevance, the underlying neural substrate of semantic influences on attention remains ill-defined. Here, we employ behavioral and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measures to uncover the mechanism by which semantic information increases visual processing efficiency. We demonstrate that the strength of the semantic relatedness signal decoded from the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG): (i) influences attention, producing behavioral semantic benefits; (ii) biases spatial attention maps in the intraparietal sulcus (IPS), subsequently modulating early visual cortex (EVC) activity; (iii) directly predicts the magnitude of behavioral semantic benefit. Together, these results identify a specific mechanism driving task-independent semantic influences on attention.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	3* ,/dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/REFrank/3_
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Cognition, Action and Perception Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Developmental Science
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	29 Jul 2021 00:10
Last Modified:	05 Nov 2024 00:47
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/80869
DOI:	10.1093/texcom/tgab049

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