The research team discovered the mechanism by which the brain automatically connects related objects

Using machine learning and brain imaging techniques, the researchers measured the extent of this "coexistence" phenomenon and identified the brain regions related to it

Johns Hopkins University cognitive scientist and corresponding author Mick Bonner (Mick Bonner) said: "When we see a refrigerator, we think we are just looking at it, but in our minds, we still associate Go to all things related to the refrigerator in the kitchen

In a two-part study, Bona and co-author, University of Pennsylvania psychology professor Russell Epstein (Russell Epstein) used a database of thousands of landscape photos.

After quantifying these contextual associations, the researchers next tried to map the brain regions that process these associations

When the brain activity of the study subjects was monitored by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the research team showed them pictures of individual objects and looked for evidence of co-occurrence information of response tracking in a region

Bonner said: "When you look at an airplane, this area heralds the sky, clouds, and all other things

Researchers have long known that people will be slower to recognize objects when they are out of context

Bonner said: "We show in a refined way that the brain actually seems to represent these rich statistical information

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