Right Hemisphere Dominance in Visual Statistical Learning

Autor/inn/en	Roser, Matthew E.; Fiser, Jozsef; Aslin, Richard N.; Gazzaniga, Michael S.
Titel	Right Hemisphere Dominance in Visual Statistical Learning
Quelle	In: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23 (2011) 5, S.1088-1099 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0898-929X
DOI	10.1162/jocn.2010.21508
Schlagwörter	Brain Hemisphere Functions; Visual Learning; Patients; Visual Discrimination + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Visual education; Visuelles Lernen; Patient
Abstract	Several studies report a right hemisphere advantage for visuospatial integration and a left hemisphere advantage for inferring conceptual knowledge from patterns of covariation. The present study examined hemispheric asymmetry in the implicit learning of new visual feature combinations. A split-brain patient and normal control participants viewed multishape scenes presented in either the right or the left visual fields. Unbeknownst to the participants, the scenes were composed from a random combination of fixed pairs of shapes. Subsequent testing found that control participants could discriminate fixed-pair shapes from randomly combined shapes when presented in either visual field. The split-brain patient performed at chance except when both the practice and the test displays were presented in the left visual field (right hemisphere). These results suggest that the statistical learning of new visual features is dominated by visuospatial processing in the right hemisphere and provide a prediction about how fMRI activation patterns might change during unsupervised statistical learning. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10