Adaptation of the human visual system to the statistics of letters and line configurations

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Title:	Adaptation of the human visual system to the statistics of letters and line configurations
Authors:	郭文瑞;Chang, Claire H.C.;Pallier, Christophe;Wu, Denise H.;Nakamura, Kimihiro;Jobert, Antoinette;Kuo, W.-J.;Dehaene, Stanislas
Contributors:	生醫理工學院認知神經科學研究所
Keywords:	Adaptation;Adaptation, Physiological - physiology;Adolescent;Adult;Brain Mapping - methods;Cognitive science;Environmental statistics;Experiments;Female;fMRI;Humans;Hypotheses;Literacy;Magnetic Resonance Imaging;Male;Neuroscience;Occipital Lobe - physiology;Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology;Psycholinguistics;Reading;Statistics;Studies;Visual Pathways - physiology;Visual recognition;Young Adult
Date:	2015-10-05
Issue Date:	2026-04-23 14:18:40 (UTC+8)
Publisher:	Academic Press Inc.;United States: Elsevier Inc
Abstract:	摘要： By adulthood, literate humans have been exposed to millions of visual scenes and pages of text. Does the human visual system become attuned to the statistics of its inputs? Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we examined whether the brain responses to line configurations are proportional to their natural-scene frequency. To further distinguish prior cortical competence from adaptation induced by learning to read, we manipulated whether the selected configurations formed letters and whether they were presented on the horizontal meridian, the familiar location where words usually appear, or on the vertical meridian. While no natural-scene frequency effect was observed, we observed letter-status and letter frequency effects on bilateral occipital activation, mainly for horizontal stimuli. The findings suggest a reorganization of the visual pathway resulting from reading acquisition under genetic and connectional constraints. Even early retinotopic areas showed a stronger response to letters than to rotated versions of the same shapes, suggesting an early visual tuning to large visual features such as letters. •We found higher brain activations for letters than non-letters in V1/V2.•High-letter-frequency letters elicited larger activations in higher visual areas.•Non-letters showed the reversed letter frequency effect.•Letter status and letter frequency effects were mainly from horizontal stimuli.•Our results suggest a reorganization of the visual pathway by reading acquisition. 其他題名： Neuroimage 出版者： United States: Elsevier Inc 出版日期： 2015-10-15 出處： NeuroImage, 2015-10, Vol.120, p.428-440 版權： 2015 Elsevier Inc. 版權： Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 版權： Copyright Elsevier Limited Oct 15, 2015 版權： CC0 1.0 - Universal 識別號： ISSN: 1053-8119 識別號： ISSN: 1095-9572 識別號： EISSN: 1095-9572 識別號： DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.07.028 識別號： PMID: 26190404
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