TY  - JOUR
AU  - Häusler, Christian O.
AU  - Eickhoff, Simon B.
AU  - Hanke, Michael
TI  - Processing of visual and non-visual naturalistic spatial information in the 'parahippocampal place area'
JO  - Scientific data
VL  - 9
IS  - 1
SN  - 2052-4436
CY  - London
PB  - Nature Publ. Group
M1  - FZJ-2022-02146
SP  - 147
PY  - 2022
AB  - The "parahippocampal place area" (PPA) in the human ventral visual stream exhibits increased hemodynamic activity correlated with the perception of landscape photos compared to faces or objects. Here, we investigate the perception of scene-related, spatial information embedded in two naturalistic stimuli. The same 14 participants were watching a Hollywood movie and listening to its audio-description as part of the open-data resource studyforrest.org. We model hemodynamic activity based on annotations of selected stimulus features, and compare results to a block-design visual localizer. On a group level, increased activation correlating with visual spatial information occurring in the movie is overlapping with a traditionally localized PPA. Activation correlating with semantic spatial information occurring in the audio-description is more restricted to the anterior PPA. On an individual level, we find significant bilateral activity in the PPA of nine individuals and unilateral activity in one individual. Results suggest that activation in the PPA generalizes to spatial information embedded in a movie and an auditory narrative, and may call for considering a functional subdivision of the PPA.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:35365659
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000777153400010
DO  - DOI:10.1038/s41597-022-01250-4
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/907670
ER  -