Generating controlled image sets in cognitive neuroscience research.

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_10090AF07CFC
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Generating controlled image sets in cognitive neuroscience research.
Périodique
Brain Topography
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Knebel J.F., Toepel U., Hudry J., le Coutre J., Murray M.M.
ISSN
0896-0267 (Print)
ISSN-L
0896-0267
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2008
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
20
Numéro
4
Pages
284-289
Langue
anglais
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Publication Status: ppublish
Résumé
The investigation of perceptual and cognitive functions with non-invasive brain imaging methods critically depends on the careful selection of stimuli for use in experiments. For example, it must be verified that any observed effects follow from the parameter of interest (e.g. semantic category) rather than other low-level physical features (e.g. luminance, or spectral properties). Otherwise, interpretation of results is confounded. Often, researchers circumvent this issue by including additional control conditions or tasks, both of which are flawed and also prolong experiments. Here, we present some new approaches for controlling classes of stimuli intended for use in cognitive neuroscience, however these methods can be readily extrapolated to other applications and stimulus modalities. Our approach is comprised of two levels. The first level aims at equalizing individual stimuli in terms of their mean luminance. Each data point in the stimulus is adjusted to a standardized value based on a standard value across the stimulus battery. The second level analyzes two populations of stimuli along their spectral properties (i.e. spatial frequency) using a dissimilarity metric that equals the root mean square of the distance between two populations of objects as a function of spatial frequency along x- and y-dimensions of the image. Randomized permutations are used to obtain a minimal value between the populations to minimize, in a completely data-driven manner, the spectral differences between image sets. While another paper in this issue applies these methods in the case of acoustic stimuli (Aeschlimann et al., Brain Topogr 2008), we illustrate this approach here in detail for complex visual stimuli.
Mots-clé
Brain/physiology, Brain Mapping, Cognition/physiology, Cognitive Science, Food, Humans, Imagination, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Photic Stimulation/methods, Research, Set (Psychology), Spectrum Analysis
Pubmed
Web of science
Open Access
Oui
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27/01/2009 13:18
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