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OBJECT ADAPTATION IN THE LATERAL OCCIPITAL COMPLEX: SHAPE OR
SEMANTICS?
by
Jiye G. Kim
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(PSYCHOLOGY)
December 2008
Copyright 2008 Jiye G. Kim
Object Description
| Title | Object adaptation in the lateral occipital complex: shape or semantics? |
| Author | Kim, Jiye G. |
| Author email | jiyekim@usc.edu; geenakim75@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Psychology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-09-22 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-11-03 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Biederman, Irving |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Lu, Zhong-lin Tjan, Bosco |
| Abstract | Changing object category from a cup to a violin produces a large release from adaptation in LOC (Grill-Spector, Kourtzi, & Kanwisher, 2001). However, without a principled way of measuring physical similarity, this effect could be due to either semantic or physical variations. In an fMRI-adaptation experiment, subjects viewed a sequence of two objects and judged whether the stimuli were identical in shape. Different-shaped stimuli could be from the same or different basic level classes, e.g., a poodle and a bulldog (Within class) vs. a poodle and a cat (Across class). The physical similarities of the stimulus pairs in the Within and Across conditions were equated with the Gabor-jet system (Lades et al., 1993), a model of simple cell similarity. BOLD responses in LOC for the Within and Across conditions were equivalent, and higher than that of the identical condition, suggesting that LOC is sensitive to shape rather than basic-level semantics. |
| Keyword | object recognition; functional magnetic resonance imaging; physical similarity; semantic similarity |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1744 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Kim, Jiye G. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Kim-2462 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume17/etd-Kim-2462.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | OBJECT ADAPTATION IN THE LATERAL OCCIPITAL COMPLEX: SHAPE OR SEMANTICS? by Jiye G. Kim A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (PSYCHOLOGY) December 2008 Copyright 2008 Jiye G. Kim |
