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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5664
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-3-12
pubmed:abstractText
To what extent do all brains work alike during natural conditions? We explored this question by letting five subjects freely view half an hour of a popular movie while undergoing functional brain imaging. Applying an unbiased analysis in which spatiotemporal activity patterns in one brain were used to "model" activity in another brain, we found a striking level of voxel-by-voxel synchronization between individuals, not only in primary and secondary visual and auditory areas but also in association cortices. The results reveal a surprising tendency of individual brains to "tick collectively" during natural vision. The intersubject synchronization consisted of a widespread cortical activation pattern correlated with emotionally arousing scenes and regionally selective components. The characteristics of these activations were revealed with the use of an open-ended "reverse-correlation" approach, which inverts the conventional analysis by letting the brain signals themselves "pick up" the optimal stimuli for each specialized cortical area.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1095-9203
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
12
pubmed:volume
303
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1634-40
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15016991-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:15016991-Attention, pubmed-meshheading:15016991-Auditory Cortex, pubmed-meshheading:15016991-Brain Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:15016991-Cerebral Cortex, pubmed-meshheading:15016991-Emotions, pubmed-meshheading:15016991-Face, pubmed-meshheading:15016991-Female, pubmed-meshheading:15016991-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15016991-Magnetic Resonance Imaging, pubmed-meshheading:15016991-Male, pubmed-meshheading:15016991-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:15016991-Motion Pictures as Topic, pubmed-meshheading:15016991-Occipital Lobe, pubmed-meshheading:15016991-Photic Stimulation, pubmed-meshheading:15016991-Temporal Lobe, pubmed-meshheading:15016991-Vision, Ocular, pubmed-meshheading:15016991-Visual Cortex, pubmed-meshheading:15016991-Visual Perception
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Intersubject synchronization of cortical activity during natural vision.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article