Differences between family- vs.

individual-level processing of
objects: a cross-site fMRI study
Meiselina Irmayanti Abdul12 and Chun-Chia Kung­13
1 Principles and Implication of Mind Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
2 Department of Communication, University of Bengkulu, Bengkulu, Indonesia
3 Department of Psychology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

ZIGGERINS
 Introduction
1. Focus on ventral occipitotemporal cortex (vOT), remain unresolved. Why ?
2. Its weird that I control eyesight, but I'm the farthest part of the brain from the eyes... #wut (@AllSeeingOx,
3/11/16)

1. the ventral occipitotemporal cortex (vOT), remain unresolved. x, 3/11/16)

3. The occipital lobe is primarily responsible for visual processing (Galetta, 2017. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology ; Priyanka, et al., 2016.
Introduction to Emotion, Electroencephalography, and Speech Pocessing ; Deyoe, E., 2002. Encyclopedia of the Human Brain )

4. How object shapes affect the processing of ?

5. How various task demands interactively influence, the ventral occipitotemporal cortex (vOT), remain unresolved.
 Introduction Experimental Design
Ziggerin: Categorization (CAT) and Individuation (IND)
(1 s) Within-class CAT- Between-class CAT-No
(0.5 s) Yes

Each Family IND-Yes Different Family IND-No

Time Until Response

(1.5 s)

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Experimental Design (cont.)
Participants:
N=18 (11 NCKU + 7 CHUK), aged 20-37 years, counter-balanced across sessions and subjects.

Procedures:
1 run = 12 sec + 9 sec x 36 blocks (p) + 6 sec x 35 block (f) + 12 sec = 558 sec (372 TRs given TR = 1.5
sec)
1 sub = 8 runs 2 sessions Fixation
each task (cat and ind)
(6 sec/4TR) Fixation (12 sec)
Fixation (12 sec/8TR) Fixation (6 sec)

Block 1 (9 sec/6TR) Block 2 Block 31 Block 32

NB: Total per run = 9 min 18 s, Total per session = 2H 33Min

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Result
General Linear Model (GLM) Cat vs Ind Data analysis

Localizing Brain Activity

Connectivity

Prediction
Activation in ventral
occipital Lindquist &Wager. Principles of fMRI
Result Searchlight-Multi-Voxel Pattern Analysis (MVPA)
L R
Data analysis

Localizing Brain
Activity

Connectivity

Prediction

Lindquist & Wager. Principles of fMRI

(1 sec)
(0.5 sec)

Time
(1.5 sec)
TR
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Result
Region of Interest (ROI) -MVPA
R L

Mostly green area no pattern

6 TP

Mostly green area no pattern

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Result
The Psycho-Psysiological Interaction Analysis (PPI)
Conclusion

1. Based on searchlight- and ROI-MVPA results, right fusiform is recruited more during
different levels of visual processing, i.e., the categorization and individuation of
Ziggerins.

2. Different FG connectivity time-course patterns suggest that r-mFG and l-mFG and
pFG region are involved in peripheral object perception (aka., cat task).
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Priyanka, et al., 2016. Introduction to Emotion, Electroencephalography, and Speech Processing