Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Object representations in the human brain reflect the co-occurrence statistics of vision and language

  • Michael F. Bonner,
  • Russell A. Epstein

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24368-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

Read online

When people view an object, they can often guess the setting from which it was drawn and the other objects that might be found in that setting. Here the authors identify regions of the human visual system that represent this information about which objects tend to appear together in the world.