Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

Reconstructing meaning from bits of information

  • Sasa L. Kivisaari,
  • Marijn van Vliet,
  • Annika Hultén,
  • Tiina Lindh-Knuutila,
  • Ali Faisal,
  • Riitta Salmelin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08848-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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We can recognize an object from one of its features, e.g. hearing a bark leads us to think of a dog. Here, the authors show using fMRI that the brain combines bits of information into object representations, and that presenting a few features of an object activates representations of its other attributes.