Familiarity from the configuration of objects in 3-dimensional space and its relation to déjà vu: A virtual reality investigation

Cleary, Anne M.; Brown, Alan S.; Sawyer, Benjamin D.; Nomi, Jason S.; Ajoku, Adaeze C.; Ryals, Anthony J.

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2011.12.010

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“…For example, recent evidence from fMRI studies in human and nonhuman primates points to the presence of a cortical patch in rostral aspects of the collateral sulcus that shows preferential responses to faces even during passive viewing (Tsao et al, 2008;Rajimehr et al, 2009;Ku et al, 2011;Nasr and Tootell, 2012). Other studies have revealed preferential responses to buildings in PhC (Aguirre et al, 1998;Maguire et al, 2001;Cate et al, 2011;Nasr and Tootell, 2012) and have shown adaptation effects in perceptual judgments (Pourtois et al, 2009).…”

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“…The SVM was trained on all trials minus one from each of the conditions that were included in the analysis at hand; those trials not included in the training dataset subsequently served as test trials for assessment of classification performance. This procedure was repeated multiple times such that all trials served as the test stimuli for classification, providing a k-fold cross-validation (Duda et al, 2001;Chadwick et al, 2010), where k reflects the number of trials that were included in the relevant analysis. For each trial in the test set, the classifier provided probability estimates that reflected the likelihood that the activity pattern across voxels associated with that trial corresponded to each of the different conditions included in the classification.…”

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“…Interestingly, fMRI research has also revealed that preferential PhC responses extend beyond scenes to certain types of objects, including buildings (Aguirre et al, 1998;Cate et al, 2011). Although the exact object characteristics that "drive" PhC responses are only beginning to be understood, initial findings suggest that PhC is preferentially tuned to objects that are large (Konkle and Oliva, 2012), that evoke a sense of threedimensional space (Mullally and Maguire, 2011), and/or that have navigational relevance (Janzen and van Turennout, 2004;Troiani et al, 2013).…”

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Distinct Familiarity-Based Response Patterns for Faces and Buildings in Perirhinal and Parahippocampal Cortex

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McLean

O’Neil

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Journal of Neuroscience

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An unresolved question in our understanding of the medial temporal lobes is how functional differences between structures pertaining to stimulus category relate to the distinction between item-based and contextually based recognition-memory processes. Specifically, it remains unclear whether perirhinal cortex (PrC) supports item-based familiarity signals for all stimulus categories or whether parahippocampal cortex (PhC) may also play a role for stimulus categories that are known to engage this structure in other task contexts. Here, we used multivoxel pattern analyses of fMRI data to compare patterns of activity in humans that are associated with the perceived familiarity of faces, buildings, and chairs. During scanning, participants judged the familiarity of previously studied and novel items from all three categories. Instances in which recognition was based on recollection were removed from all analyses. In right PrC, we found patterns of activity that distinguished familiar from novel faces. By contrast, in right PhC, we observed such patterns for buildings. Familiarity signals for chairs were present in both structures but shared little overlap with the patterns observed for faces and buildings on a more fine-grained scale. In the hippocampus, we found no evidence for familiarity signals for any object category. Our findings show that both PrC and PhC contribute to the assessment of item familiarity. They suggest that PhC does not only represent episodic context but can also represent item information for some object categories in recognition-memory decisions. In turn, our findings also indicate that the involvement of PrC in representing item familiarity is not ubiquitous.

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Distinct Familiarity-Based Response Patterns for Faces and Buildings in Perirhinal and Parahippocampal Cortex

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McLean

O’Neil

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“…The experient is unaware of the source of this evoked familiarity, leading to a feeling of déjà vu. This account lends itself to laboratory experimentation with the recognition without identification paradigm, where it is possible to make a stimulus familiar in such a way that the participant is not aware of the source of the familiarity (e.g., Cleary, 2008; Cleary and Reyes, 2009; Cleary et al, 2009, 2012). Such research places an emphasis on the role of familiarity in triggering déjà vu.…”

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Déjà vu experiences in healthy subjects are unrelated to laboratory tests of recollection and familiarity for word stimuli

O'Connor

Moulin

2013

Front. Psychol.

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Recent neuropsychological and neuroscientific research suggests that people who experience more déjà vu display characteristic patterns in normal recognition memory. We conducted a large individual differences study (n = 206) to test these predictions using recollection and familiarity parameters recovered from a standard memory task. Participants reported déjà vu frequency and a number of its correlates, and completed a recognition memory task analogous to a Remember-Know procedure. The individual difference measures replicated an established correlation between déjà vu frequency and frequency of travel, and recognition performance showed well-established word frequency and accuracy effects. Contrary to predictions, no relationships were found between déjà vu frequency and recollection or familiarity memory parameters from the recognition test. We suggest that déjà vu in the healthy population reflects a mismatch between errant memory signaling and memory monitoring processes not easily characterized by standard recognition memory task performance.

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“…At a broad level, the results provide further support for the feature-matching theory of RWCR, with a completely different type of feature than previously investigated, and with a feature-type that is more abstract and difficult to identify than in previous research. This suggests that the feature-matching theory of RWCR is not limited to features that are perceptual in nature, such as with graphemic cues for words (e.g., , or with spatial layout cues for scenes (e.g., Cleary et al, 2012). The feature-matching theory appears to apply even in cases where the overlapping information from study to test is more abstract or conceptual in nature.…”

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Recognition during recall failure: Semantic feature matching as a mechanism for recognition of semantic cues when recall fails

Cleary

Ryals²,

Wagner

2015

Mem Cogn

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Research suggests that a feature-matching process underlies cue familiarity-detection when cued recall with graphemic cues fails. When a test cue (e.g., potchbork) overlaps in graphemic features with multiple unrecalled studied items (e.g., patchwork, pitchfork, pocketbook, pullcork), higher cue familiarity ratings are given during recall failure of all of the targets than when the cue overlaps in graphemic features with only one studied target and that target fails to be recalled (e.g., patchwork). The present study used semantic feature production norms (McRae et al., Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 37, 547-559, 2005) to examine whether the same holds true when the cues are semantic in nature (e.g., jaguar is used to cue cheetah). Indeed, test cues (e.g., cedar) that overlapped in semantic features (e.g., a_tree, has_bark, etc.) with four unretrieved studied items (e.g., birch, oak, pine, willow) received higher cue familiarity ratings during recall failure than test cues that overlapped in semantic features with only two (also unretrieved) studied items (e.g., birch, oak), which in turn received higher familiarity ratings during recall failure than cues that did not overlap in semantic features with any studied items. These findings suggest that the featurematching theory of recognition during recall failure can accommodate recognition of semantic cues during recall failure, providing a potential mechanism for conceptually-based forms of cue recognition during target retrieval failure. They also provide converging evidence for the existence of the semantic features envisaged in feature-based models of semantic knowledge representation and for those more concretely specified by the production norms of McRae et al. (Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 37, 547-559, 2005). Keywords Familiarity in recognition memory . Semantic memory . RecognitionWhat leads something to seem familiar despite a failure to recall any specific prior experience with it? Ryals and Cleary (2012) suggest that at least one basis for this experience may be a feature-matching process, whereby features (i.e., attributes) of the current situation are compared with those of representations stored in memory to produce a sense of familiarity that varies according to the degree of match. Ryals and Cleary (2012) used the example of recognizing the street sign for "Marston" as familiar because of its high degree of featurematch to a recently-seen street sign, "Morton." Despite failing to trigger recall of having recently passed a street sign for "Morton," the new sign "Marston" may still seem familiar because of its high degree of feature-overlap with the recently-encountered sign "Morton." The letter and sound features shared between the cue "Marston" and the memory for "Morton" may participate in the aforementioned featurematching process such that a detectable familiarity signal emerges upon encountering Marston -a familiarity signal that exceeds some internal criterion for discriminating signals ...

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Familiarity from the configuration of objects in 3-dimensional space and its relation to déjà vu: A virtual reality investigation

Cited by 55 publications

References 16 publications

Distinct Familiarity-Based Response Patterns for Faces and Buildings in Perirhinal and Parahippocampal Cortex

Distinct Familiarity-Based Response Patterns for Faces and Buildings in Perirhinal and Parahippocampal Cortex

Déjà vu experiences in healthy subjects are unrelated to laboratory tests of recollection and familiarity for word stimuli

Recognition during recall failure: Semantic feature matching as a mechanism for recognition of semantic cues when recall fails

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