Reentrant Processing in Intuitive Perception

Abstract

The process of perception requires not only the brain's receipt of sensory data but also the meaningful organization of that data in relation to the perceptual experience held in memory. Although it typically results in a conscious percept, the process of perception is not fully conscious. Research on the neural substrates of human visual perception has suggested that regions of limbic cortex, including the medial orbital frontal cortex (mOFC), may contribute to intuitive judgments about perceptual events, such as guessing whether an object might be present in a briefly presented fragmented drawing. Examining dense array measures of cortical electrical activity during a modified Waterloo Gestalt Closure Task, results show, as expected, that activity in medial orbital frontal electrical responses (about 250 ms) was associated with intuitive judgments. Activity in the right temporal-parietal-occipital (TPO) region was found to predict mOFC (∼150 ms) activity and, in turn, was subsequently influenced by the mOFC at a later time (∼300 ms). The initial perception of gist or meaning of a visual stimulus in limbic networks may thus yield reentrant input to the visual areas to influence continued development of the percept. Before perception is completed, the initial representation of gist may support intuitive judgments about the ongoing perceptual process.

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“…(Overgaard et al, 2006) A few years before, Petra Stoerig conducted a research on the functional vision system and levels of perception, in which she already suggested "a concept of dissociable levels of perception." (Stoerig & Brandt, 1993) And in a survey about intuitive perception, Phan Luu (Luu et al, 2010) and his team agreed that the "process of perception requires not only the brain's receipt of sensory data but also the meaningful organization of that data in relation to the perceptual experience held in memory," bearing in mind that although it results in a "conscious perception, the perception process is not fully conscious" before the perception culminates "the initial representation of gist may support intuitive judgments about the ongoing perceptual process." (id.…”

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“…In distinction, intuitive decision-making relies upon a more holistic approach inprocessing to continue judging for planned results as the external problem space changes (Evans: 2008). Intuition is a rapid, non-conscious, indication to the existence of meaningful information detected through one or more sensory modalities (Luu et al: 2010).…”

“…This unconscious organization of incoming information may elicit a feeling or impression of a solution (Luu et al: 2010), which introduces insight or a rapid awareness.…”

“…Until recently, intuitive decision-making was assumed to require important domain knowledge (Kahneman & Klein: 2009). However a growing number of results ranging from the biological (mainly, neural) to the cognitive (Lieberman: 2000;Jung-Beeman et al: 2004;Luu et al: 2010) suggest that pre-existing expertise, theme 6 open strand which requires years of practice to achieve (Dreyfus & Dreyfus: 1980;Ericsson et al: 1993) may not be a key requirement for intuitive decision-making processes. These studies, and others, suggest that intuitive decision making processes share some of the same underlying neural structures and cognitive processes as a type of learning known as implicit learning (Lieberma: 2000, 20007;Kaufman et al: 2010).…”

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“…It was shown that this process involves local and distributed neuronal net works encompassing projection cortical fields, the extrastriate cortex, the prefrontal cortex, and limbic structures of the brain [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. It follows that the pos sibility of recognizing objects of different complexities is determined by the extent and pattern of involvement of modal specific structures in the analysis and pro cessing of visual information and regulatory systems modulating the functional activity of various cortical zones.…”