Abstract

This study investigates the markers of operation of the classification mechanism that is invariant to scale transformations of images of test objects. Observers were asked to classify images according to the criterion of animate/inanimate object. Two series of studies were conducted using the method of cognitive evoked potentials. The angular sizes of the image of the objects presented to the observer were 3° in one series and 0.4° in another. It was established that the classification of the images of the stimuli of various angular sizes according to semantic features (animate/inanimate) causes a difference in the amplitudes of the P200 components (in the leads F7 and F8 of the frontal area). The role of the P200 components of the evoked potentials in the frontal areas of the brain as a marker of the classification process was investigated. It is observed that neural networks of the prefrontal cortex use the invariant description of images implemented in the previous stages of their processing to perform the classification of objects.

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