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Multiscale integration of contextual information during a naturalistic task
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posted on 2023-06-09, 08:07 authored by James Keidel, Christiane Oedekoven, Andreea Tut, Chris BirdChris BirdEveryday experience requires rapid and automatic integration of incoming stimuli with previously stored knowledge. Prior knowledge can help construct a general “situation model” of the event, as well as aid comprehension of an ongoing narrative. Using fMRI in healthy adult humans we investigated processing of videos whose locations and characters were always familiar but whose narratives were either a continuation or non-continuation of an earlier video (high context (HC) or low context (LC) respectively). Responses in parahippocampal gyrus and retrosplenial cortex were composed of an initial transient, locked to the video onsets, followed by a period of lower amplitude activation that was greater in the LC condition. This may reflect rapid processing of core components of situation models such as location and characters and more gradual incorporation of their narrative themes. By contrast, activity increases in left hemisphere middle temporal gyrus (MTG), angular gyrus and inferior frontal gyrus were maintained throughout the videos and were higher for HC versus LC videos. Further, activity in the left MTG peaked earlier in the HC condition. We suggest that these regions support representations of the specific inter-linked concepts necessary to comprehend an ongoing narrative, which are already established for the HC videos.
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Cerebral CortexISSN
1047-3211Publisher
Oxford University PressExternal DOI
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10Volume
28Page range
3531-3539Department affiliated with
- Psychology Publications
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2017-09-27First Open Access (FOA) Date
2018-08-22First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2017-09-27Usage metrics
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