A network view on brain regions involved in experts' object and pattern recognition: Implications for the neural mechanisms of skilled visual perception.

ABSTRACT: Skilled visual object and pattern recognition form the basis of many everyday behaviours. The game of chess has often been used as a model case for studying how long-term experience aides in perceiving objects and their spatio-functional interrelations. Earlier research revealed two brain regions, posterior middle temporal gyrus (pMTG) and collateral sulcus (CoS), to be linked to chess experts' superior object and pattern recognition, respectively. Here we elucidated the brain networks these two expertise-related regions are embedded in, employing resting-state functional connectivity analysis and meta-analytic connectivity modelling with the BrainMap database. pMTG was preferentially connected with dorsal visual stream areas and a parieto-prefrontal network for action planning, while CoS

SUBMITTER: Langner R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6421106 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature