Electrophysiological evidence for size invariance in masked picture repetition priming

Marianna D Eddy, Phillip J Holcomb · Brain and Cognition · 2009 · neuroscience · 10.1016/j.bandc.2009.05.006 · record unknown2009-electrophysiological-evidence-for-size-invar
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standard deviation 3 fields · repetition priming 2 fields · adaptation 2 fields

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invariance masked repetition priming N190/P190 N400 mirror reflection object recognition Object recognition proceeds hierarchically: perceptual overlap between prime and target must first be established before a higher-level semantic representation can be activated, so blocking the early overlap blocks the later effect. Insufficient pooling: many neurons coding low-level features may fire to both prime and target, yet not enough of their activity converges to drive the sparser, more complex intermediate representation. Receptive-field displacement: mirror reflection moves the prime-activated features outside the receptive fields of the cells that the target activates, so no priming benefit accrues. Compensation cost: reconciling a prime and target that differ in both size and left-right orientation demands extra processing effort, which shows up as a reduced (here absent) N190/P190 priming effect. identity condition size condition mirror condition size-mirror condition repetition priming N190/P190 component N400 component adaptation prime size mirror reflection of the target repetition Mean amplitude electrode site counterbalanced lists stimulus onset-asynchrony inter-trial interval repeated-measures ANOVA repeated measures Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) Greenhouse-Geisser correction effect size (partial eta squared) t-test d-prime (signal detection sensitivity) The average d’ was calculated mean Mean amplitude measurements standard deviation electrophysiology

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sensesPRIMING IS THE INSTRUMENT AND INVARIANCE IS THE SUBJECT, stated in the abstract's first sentence: `Quotation withheld` Whether priming SURVIVES a transformation is the measurement of whether the representation is invariant to it - so the experiment is about object representation, and priming is the apparatus. The pickering2008 distinction in a third literature, after Argiris2021
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sensesTHE LATE STAGE IS MORE INVARIANT THAN THE EARLY ONE, which is the opposite of the obvious ordering. `The N400 unlike the N190/P190 appears to be FULLY invariant to size, since the repetition effect for the small prime condition DID NOT DIFFER from the repetition effect for the identity priming condition` - a null stated with its statistical basis attached. The early perceptual effect survives the same manipulation but pays for it: it `compensates for differences in size, but not without a small processing cost`. So invariance is not a property a representation has or lacks; it is graded, and it is cheaper further up
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sensesTHE ERP CASCADE TURNS `IS IT INVARIANT?` INTO `WHEN DOES IT STOP BEING INVARIANT?` The conclusion says exactly this: the results `help elucidate the time course of previous fMRI findings of size invariance in adaptation paradigms and also when during object processing left-right arrangement of objects becomes important for activating an object representation.` fMRI adaptation can say a region is invariant; a component sequence can say at which stage the invariance ends. That is the methodological reason this paper exists, and it is a claim about what its instrument can resolve rather than about objects
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content_tagsMasked repetition priming of pictures produced early (N190/P190) and late (N400) ERP effects that were invariant to size, while only the early effect was invariant to mirror reflection.
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content_tagsCombining a small prime with a mirror-reflected target produced no significant priming effects.
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content_tagsEven in the earliest window, the small-prime-plus-mirror condition produced no reliable repetition effect (F<3, p>0.065).
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content_tagsNo significant N300 repetition effect appeared in any condition.
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content_tagsThe N400 was fully size-invariant: the small-prime repetition effect was statistically indistinguishable from the identity repetition effect.
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content_tagsThe early N190/P190 compensated for differences in size, but with a small processing cost.
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content_tagsMirror-reflecting the target eliminated the N400 repetition effect altogether.
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content_tagsThe failure of priming in the combined small-prime/mirror-target condition is attributable to the mirror reflection rather than to the prime size, since small primes alone still primed and mirror targets alone did not.
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content_tagsTarget d' averaged 4.45 and 4.75, significantly above the prime items' d' in both prime-size conditions.
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content_tagsn = 24 — participants, undergraduates with a mean age of 19.6 years
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content_tagsapproximately 15% — trials discarded for blinks, eye movements or muscle artifact before averaging
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content_tagsF(1,23) = 11.295, p = 0.003, η p 2 = 0.329 — midline main effect of repetition for the identity condition in the N400 window
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