Extensive childhood experience with Pokémon suggests eccentricity drives organization of visual cortex
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The functional organization of human high-level visual cortex, such as the face- and place-selective regions, is strikingly consistent across individuals. An unanswered question in neuroscience concerns which dimensions of visual information constrain the development and topography of this shared brain organization. To answer this question, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to scan a unique group of adults who, as children, had extensive visual experience with Pokémon. These animal-like, pixelated characters are dissimilar from other ecological categories, such as faces and places, along critical dimensions (foveal bias, rectilinearity, size, animacy). We show not only that adults who have Pokémon experience demonstrate distinct distributed cortical responses to Pokémon, but also that the experienced retinal eccentricity during childhood can predict the locus of Pokémon responses in adulthood. These data demonstrate that inherent functional representations in the visual cortex-retinal eccentricity-combined with consistent viewing behaviour of particular stimuli during childhood result in a shared functional topography in adulthood.
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- Authors
- Gomez, J., Barnett, M., & Grill-Spector, K.
- Affiliations
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Corresponding author
- Gomez, Jesse
- Venue
- Nature Human Behaviour
- Published
- 2019-05-06
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 611-624
- ISSN
- 2397-3374 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7055538
- OpenAlex
- W2942764482
- Cited by
- 81
- References
- 96
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 9
- FWCI
- 6.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature Human Behaviour (publishedVersion)
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (1ROI1EY02231801A1)
- National Eye Institute (R01EY022318, F31EY027201, R01EY023915)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
- Keywords
- Pokémon, retinal eccentricity, visual cortex organization, face-selective cortex, high-level vision, viewing behavior, animacy
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Brain Mapping, Female, Fovea Centralis, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Neuronal Plasticity, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Retina, Temporal Lobe, Visual Cortex, Visual Fields, Video Games, Young Adult
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