Dear Users

This Thursday (from 4 pm in B020), David Coggan will give an internal project proposal presentation on *"Adaptation to scrambled images in category-selective regions of the ventral visual pathway*".

Abstract: Category-selective responses in the ventral visual pathway have led researchers to conclude that this region encodes high-level, categorical representations. However, it is unclear whether these regions are truly responding to the category of an object, or the low-level visual properties that are commonly found in that category. Recently, we demonstrated that category-selective patterns of neural activity in the ventral visual pathway can be replicated with phase-scrambled images that people cannot recognize, suggesting that low/mid-level image properties, rather than high-level categorical properties determine large-scale responses in this area. The proposed project develops on this by asking whether we can also replicate category-specific adaptation effects which have been found in this region using our phase-scrambled, nonsense stimuli.

Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be available after the seminar.

Best wishes Rebecca