Presentation 2019-03-04
Transition of informative areas in the human brain during haptic shape recognition of real objects
Shota Eto, Hironori nakatani, Yoichi Miyawaki,
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Abstract(in English) Shape information is vital for object recognition and it can be acquired by vision and haptic sensation. Previous studies showed object shape information is represented in patterns of brain activity of the visual and somatosensory cortex. However, it is unclear what brain areas are involved in information representation of object shape over time. In this study, we designed experiments using real objects in which subjects need longer time to recognize its object shape by touch, and investigated what brain areas represent object shape information over time using a searchlight method and time-resolved fMRI decoding approach. As a result, superior parietal lobule first showed significant decoding accuracy and then supramarginal gyrus and higher visual areas followed to show significant decoding accuracy. These results suggests that haptic information of object shape might be represented in superior parietal lobule early in time and then transferred to supramarginal gyrus and higher visual areas.
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Keyword(in English) fMRI / multi variate pattern analysis (MVPA) / Somatosensory / shape recognition / parietal lobule
Paper # NC2018-48
Date of Issue 2019-02-25 (NC)

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Committee NC / MBE
Conference Date 2019/3/4(3days)
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Place (in English) University of Electro Communications
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Chair Yutaka Hirata(Chubu Univ.) / Masaki Kyoso(TCU)
Vice Chair Hayaru Shouno(UEC) / Taishin Nomura(Osaka Univ.)
Secretary Hayaru Shouno(Nagoya Univ.) / Taishin Nomura(NAIST)
Assistant Keiichiro Inagaki(Chubu Univ.) / Takashi Shinozaki(NICT) / Takumi Kobayashi(YNU) / Yasuyuki Suzuki(Osaka Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Neurocomputing / Technical Committee on ME and Bio Cybernetics
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Transition of informative areas in the human brain during haptic shape recognition of real objects
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Keyword(1) fMRI
Keyword(2) multi variate pattern analysis (MVPA)
Keyword(3) Somatosensory
Keyword(4) shape recognition
Keyword(5) parietal lobule
1st Author's Name Shota Eto
1st Author's Affiliation The University of Electro-Communications(UEC)
2nd Author's Name Hironori nakatani
2nd Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo(UTokyo)
3rd Author's Name Yoichi Miyawaki
3rd Author's Affiliation The University of Electro-Communications(UEC)
Date 2019-03-04
Paper # NC2018-48
Volume (vol) vol.118
Number (no) NC-470
Page pp.pp.25-30(NC),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2019-02-25 (NC)