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Vaessen MJ, Abassi E, Mancini M, Camurri A, de Gelder B. Computational Feature Analysis of Body Movements Reveals Hierarchical Brain Organization. Cereb Cortex 2018; 29:3551-3560. [DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhy228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2018] [Revised: 08/20/2018] [Accepted: 08/21/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Social species spend considerable time observing the body movements of others to understand their actions, predict their emotions, watch their games, or enjoy their dance movements. Given the important information obtained from body movements, we still know surprisingly little about the details of brain mechanisms underlying movement perception. In this fMRI study, we investigated the relations between movement features obtained from automated computational analyses of video clips and the corresponding brain activity. Our results show that low-level computational features map to specific brain areas related to early visual- and motion-sensitive regions, while mid-level computational features are related to dynamic aspects of posture encoded in occipital–temporal cortex, posterior superior temporal sulcus and superior parietal lobe. Furthermore, behavioral features obtained from subjective ratings correlated with activity in higher action observation regions. Our computational feature-based analysis suggests that the neural mechanism of movement encoding is organized in the brain not so much by semantic categories than by feature statistics of the body movements.
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- Maarten J Vaessen
- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain and Emotion Laboratory, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, EV Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain and Emotion Laboratory, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, EV Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Informatics, Casa Paganini-InfoMus Research Centre, Bioengineering, Robotics, and Systems Engineering (DIBRIS), University of Genoa, Genova, Italy
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- Department of Informatics, Casa Paganini-InfoMus Research Centre, Bioengineering, Robotics, and Systems Engineering (DIBRIS), University of Genoa, Genova, Italy
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain and Emotion Laboratory, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, EV Maastricht, the Netherlands
- Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
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Schindler A, Bartels A. Human V6 Integrates Visual and Extra-Retinal Cues during Head-Induced Gaze Shifts. iScience 2018; 7:191-197. [PMID: 30267680 PMCID: PMC6153141 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2018.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2018] [Revised: 07/13/2018] [Accepted: 09/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A key question in vision research concerns how the brain compensates for self-induced eye and head movements to form the world-centered, spatiotopic representations we perceive. Although human V3A and V6 integrate eye movements with vision, it is unclear which areas integrate head motion signals with visual retinotopic representations, as fMRI typically prevents head movement executions. Here we examined whether human early visual cortex V3A and V6 integrate these signals. A previously introduced paradigm allowed participant head movement during trials, but stabilized the head during data acquisition utilizing the delay between blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) and neural signals. Visual stimuli simulated either a stable environment or one with arbitrary head-coupled visual motion. Importantly, both conditions were matched in retinal and head motion. Contrasts revealed differential responses in human V6. Given the lack of vestibular responses in primate V6, these results suggest multi-modal integration of visual with neck efference copy signals or proprioception in V6. Setup with head-mounted goggles and head movement during fMRI Simulation of forward flow in stable or unstable world during head rotation Human V6 integrates visual self-motion with head motion signals Likely mediated by efference copy or proprioception as V6 lacks vestibular input
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- Andreas Schindler
- Vision and Cognition Lab, Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Otfried-Müller-Str. 25, Tübingen 72076, Germany; Department of Psychology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72076, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen 72076, Germany; Centre for Integrative Neuroscience & MEG Center, University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72076, Germany.
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- Vision and Cognition Lab, Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Otfried-Müller-Str. 25, Tübingen 72076, Germany; Department of Psychology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72076, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen 72076, Germany.
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Film theorists and practitioners suggest that motion can be manipulated in movie scenes to elicit emotional responses in viewers. However, our understanding of the role of motion in emotion perception remains limited. On the one hand, movies continuously depict local motion- movements of objects and humans, which are crucial for generating emotional responses. Movie scenes also frequently portray global motion, mainly induced by large camera movements, global motion being yet another source of information used by the brain during natural vision. Here we used functional MRI to elucidate the contributions of local and global motion to emotion perception during movie viewing. Subjects observed long (1 min) movie segments depicting emotional or neutral content. Brain activity in areas that showed preferential responses to emotional content was strongly linked over time with frame-wide variations in global motion, and to a lesser extent with local motion information. Similarly, stronger responses to emotional content were recorded within regions of interest whose activity was attuned to global and local motion over time. Since global motion fields are experienced during self-motion, we suggest that camera movements may induce illusory self-motion cues in viewers that interact with the movie’s narrative and with other emotional cues in generating affective responses.
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Rühl RM, Bauermann T, Dieterich M, Zu Eulenburg P. Functional correlate and delineated connectivity pattern of human motion aftereffect responses substantiate a subjacent visual-vestibular interaction. Neuroimage 2018. [PMID: 29518571 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.02.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The visual motion aftereffect (MAE) is the most prominent aftereffect in the visual system. Regarding its function, psychophysical studies suggest its function to be a form of sensory error correction, possibly also triggered by incongruent visual-vestibular stimulation. Several observational imaging experiments have deducted an essential role for region MT+ in the perception of a visual MAE but not provided conclusive evidence. Potential confounders with the MAE such as ocular motor performance, attention, and vection sensations have also never been controlled for. Aim of this neuroimaging study was to delineate the neural correlates of MAE and its subjacent functional connectivity pattern. A rotational MAE (n = 22) was induced using differing visual stimuli whilst modulating ocular motor parameters in a 3T scanner. Data was analyzed with SPM12. Eye movements as a response to the same stimuli were studied by means of high-resolution videooculography. Analysis for all stimuli gave bilateral activations along the dorsal visual stream with an emphasis on area MT. The onset of a visual MAE revealed an additional response in the right medial superior temporal area (MST) and a concurrent deactivation of vestibular hub region OP2. There was no correlation for the BOLD effects during the MAE with either ocular motor or attention parameters. The functional correlate of a visual MAE in humans may be represented in the interaction between region MT and area MST. This MAE representation is independent of a potential afternystagmus, attention and the presence of egomotion sensations. Connectivity analyses showed that in the event of conflicting visual-vestibular motion information (here MAE) area MST and area OP2 may act as the relevant mediating network hubs.
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- Ria Maxine Rühl
- German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders-IFB LMU, Munich, Germany; Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
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- German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders-IFB LMU, Munich, Germany; Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany; Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy)(3), Munich, Germany
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- German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders-IFB LMU, Munich, Germany; Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.
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Meier K, Partanen M, Giaschi D. Neural Correlates of Speed-Tuned Motion Perception in Healthy Adults. Perception 2018; 47:660-683. [PMID: 29683390 DOI: 10.1177/0301006618771463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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It has been suggested that slow and medium-to-fast speeds of motion may be processed by at least partially separate mechanisms. The purpose of this study was to establish the cortical areas activated during motion-defined form and global motion tasks as a function of speed, using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Participants performed discrimination tasks with random dot stimuli at high coherence, at coherence near their own thresholds, and for random motion. Stimuli were moving at 0.1 or 5 deg/s. In the motion-defined form task, lateral occipital complex, V5/MT+ and intraparietal sulcus showed greater activation by high or near-threshold coherence than by random motion stimuli; V5/MT+ and intraparietal sulcus demonstrated greater activation for 5 than 0.1 deg/s dot motion. In the global motion task, only high coherence stimuli elicited significant activation over random motion; this activation was primarily in nonclassical motion areas. V5/MT+ was active for all motion conditions and showed similar activation for coherent and random motion. No regions demonstrated speed-tuning effects for global motion. These results suggest that similar cortical systems are activated by slow- and medium-speed stimuli during these tasks in healthy adults.
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- Kimberly Meier
- Department of Psychology, 8166 University of British Columbia , Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Education and Counselling Psychology and Special Education, 8166 University of British Columbia , Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, 8166 University of British Columbia , Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Nau M, Schindler A, Bartels A. Real-motion signals in human early visual cortex. Neuroimage 2018; 175:379-387. [PMID: 29649561 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.04.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2017] [Revised: 04/06/2018] [Accepted: 04/08/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Eye movements induce visual motion that can complicate the stable perception of the world. The visual system compensates for such self-induced visual motion by integrating visual input with efference copies of eye movement commands. This mechanism is central as it does not only support perceptual stability but also mediates reliable perception of world-centered objective motion. In humans, it remains elusive whether visual motion responses in early retinotopic cortex are driven by objective motion or by retinal motion associated with it. To address this question, we used fMRI to examine functional responses of sixteen visual areas to combinations of planar objective motion and pursuit eye movements. Observers were exposed to objective motion that was faster, matched or slower relative to pursuit, allowing us to compare conditions that differed in objective motion velocity while retinal motion and eye movement signals were matched. Our results show that not only higher level motion regions such as V3A and V6, but also early visual areas signaled the velocity of objective motion, hence the product of integrating retinal with non-retinal signals. These results shed new light on mechanisms that mediate perceptual stability and real-motion perception, and show that extra-retinal signals related to pursuit eye movements influence processing in human early visual cortex.
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- Matthias Nau
- Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Centre for Neural Computation, Trondheim, Norway; Egil & Pauline Braathen and Fred Kavli Centre for Cortical Microcircuits, Trondheim, Norway; Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Department of Psychology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
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- Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Department of Psychology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany; Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience, Tübingen, Germany.
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Pitzalis S, Strappini F, Bultrini A, Di Russo F. Detailed spatiotemporal brain mapping of chromatic vision combining high-resolution VEP with fMRI and retinotopy. Hum Brain Mapp 2018. [PMID: 29536594 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Neuroimaging studies have identified so far, several color-sensitive visual areas in the human brain, and the temporal dynamics of these activities have been separately investigated using the visual-evoked potentials (VEPs). In the present study, we combined electrophysiological and neuroimaging methods to determine a detailed spatiotemporal profile of chromatic VEP and to localize its neural generators. The accuracy of the present co-registration study was obtained by combining standard fMRI data with retinotopic and motion mapping data at the individual level. We found a sequence of occipito activities more complex than that typically reported for chromatic VEPs, including feed-forward and reentrant feedback. Results showed that chromatic human perception arises by the combined activity of at the least five parieto-occipital areas including V1, LOC, V8/VO, and the motion-sensitive dorsal region MT+. However, the contribution of V1 and V8/VO seems dominant because the re-entrant activity in these areas was present more than once (twice in V8/VO and thrice in V1). This feedforward and feedback chromatic processing appears delayed compared with the luminance processing. Associating VEPs and neuroimaging measures, we showed for the first time a complex spatiotemporal pattern of activity, confirming that chromatic stimuli produce intricate interactions of many different brain dorsal and ventral areas.
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- Sabrina Pitzalis
- Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico,", Rome, Italy.,Santa Lucia Foundation, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico,", Rome, Italy
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- Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico,", Rome, Italy.,Santa Lucia Foundation, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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Cottereau BR, Smith AT, Rima S, Fize D, Héjja-Brichard Y, Renaud L, Lejards C, Vayssière N, Trotter Y, Durand JB. Processing of Egomotion-Consistent Optic Flow in the Rhesus Macaque Cortex. Cereb Cortex 2018; 27:330-343. [PMID: 28108489 PMCID: PMC5939222 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhw412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The cortical network that processes visual cues to self-motion was characterized with functional magnetic resonance imaging in 3 awake behaving macaques. The experimental protocol was similar to previous human studies in which the responses to a single large optic flow patch were contrasted with responses to an array of 9 similar flow patches. This distinguishes cortical regions where neurons respond to flow in their receptive fields regardless of surrounding motion from those that are sensitive to whether the overall image arises from self-motion. In all 3 animals, significant selectivity for egomotion-consistent flow was found in several areas previously associated with optic flow processing, and notably dorsal middle superior temporal area, ventral intra-parietal area, and VPS. It was also seen in areas 7a (Opt), STPm, FEFsem, FEFsac and in a region of the cingulate sulcus that may be homologous with human area CSv. Selectivity for egomotion-compatible flow was never total but was particularly strong in VPS and putative macaque CSv. Direct comparison of results with the equivalent human studies reveals several commonalities but also some differences.
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- Benoit R Cottereau
- Université de Toulouse, Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, Toulouse, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France
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- Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK
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- Université de Toulouse, Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, Toulouse, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse, CNRS-Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Université de Toulouse, Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, Toulouse, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France
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- CNRS, CE2F PRIM UMS3537, Marseille, France.,Aix Marseille Université, Centre d'Exploration Fonctionnelle et de Formation, Marseille, France
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- Université de Toulouse, Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, Toulouse, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France
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- Université de Toulouse, Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, Toulouse, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France
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- Université de Toulouse, Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, Toulouse, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France
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- Université de Toulouse, Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, Toulouse, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France
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Carey D, Krishnan S, Callaghan MF, Sereno MI, Dick F. Functional and Quantitative MRI Mapping of Somatomotor Representations of Human Supralaryngeal Vocal Tract. Cereb Cortex 2018; 27:265-278. [PMID: 28069761 PMCID: PMC5808730 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhw393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Speech articulation requires precise control of and coordination between the effectors of the vocal tract (e.g., lips, tongue, soft palate, and larynx). However, it is unclear how the cortex represents movements of and contact between these effectors during speech, or how these cortical responses relate to inter-regional anatomical borders. Here, we used phase-encoded fMRI to map somatomotor representations of speech articulations. Phonetically trained participants produced speech phones, progressing from front (bilabial) to back (glottal) place of articulation. Maps of cortical myelin proxies (R1 = 1/T1) further allowed us to situate functional maps with respect to anatomical borders of motor and somatosensory regions. Across participants, we found a consistent topological map of place of articulation, spanning the central sulcus and primary motor and somatosensory areas, that moved from lateral to inferior as place of articulation progressed from front to back. Phones produced at velar and glottal places of articulation activated the inferior aspect of the central sulcus, but with considerable across-subject variability. R1 maps for a subset of participants revealed that articulator maps extended posteriorly into secondary somatosensory regions. These results show consistent topological organization of cortical representations of the vocal apparatus in the context of speech behavior.
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- Daniel Carey
- Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, TW20 0EX, UK.,The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, Department of Medical Gerontology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.,Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HX, UK
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HX, UK.,Department of Experimental Psychology, Tinbergen Building, 9 South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3UD, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, University College London, 12 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HX, UK.,Birkbeck/UCL Centre for Neuroimaging, 26 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AP, UK.,Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, 26 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AP, UK.,Department of Psychology, College of Sciences, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182-4611, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HX, UK.,Birkbeck/UCL Centre for Neuroimaging, 26 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AP, UK
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Uesaki M, Takemura H, Ashida H. Computational neuroanatomy of human stratum proprium of interparietal sulcus. Brain Struct Funct 2018; 223:489-507. [PMID: 28871500 PMCID: PMC5772143 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-017-1492-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2017] [Accepted: 08/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Recent advances in diffusion-weighted MRI (dMRI) and tractography have enabled identification of major long-range white matter tracts in the human brain. Yet, our understanding of shorter tracts, such as those within the parietal lobe, remains limited. Over a century ago, a tract connecting the superior and inferior parts of the parietal cortex was identified in a post-mortem study: stratum proprium of interparietal sulcus (SIPS; Sachs, Das hemisphärenmark des menschlichen grosshirns. Verlag von georg thieme, Leipzig, 1892). The tract has since been replicated in another fibre dissection study (Vergani et al., Cortex 56:145-156, 2014), however, it has not been fully investigated in the living human brain and its precise anatomical properties are yet to be described. We used dMRI and tractography to identify and characterise SIPS in vivo, and explored its spatial proximity to the cortical areas associated with optic-flow processing using fMRI. SIPS was identified bilaterally in all subjects, and its anatomical position and trajectory are consistent with previous post-mortem studies. Subsequent evaluation of the tractography results using the linear fascicle evaluation and virtual lesion analysis yielded strong statistical evidence for SIPS. We also found that the SIPS endpoints are adjacent to the optic-flow selective areas. In sum, we show that SIPS is a short-range tract connecting the superior and inferior parts of the parietal cortex, wrapping around the intraparietal sulcus, and that it may be a crucial anatomy underlying optic-flow processing. In vivo identification and characterisation of SIPS will facilitate further research on SIPS in relation to cortical functions, their development, and diseases that affect them.
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- Maiko Uesaki
- Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan.
- Open Innovation and Collaboration Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan.
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan.
- Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, and Osaka University, Suita, Japan.
- Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.
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- Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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Dissociation of Self-Motion and Object Motion by Linear Population Decoding That Approximates Marginalization. J Neurosci 2017; 37:11204-11219. [PMID: 29030435 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1177-17.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2017] [Revised: 10/02/2017] [Accepted: 10/06/2017] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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We use visual image motion to judge the movement of objects, as well as our own movements through the environment. Generally, image motion components caused by object motion and self-motion are confounded in the retinal image. Thus, to estimate heading, the brain would ideally marginalize out the effects of object motion (or vice versa), but little is known about how this is accomplished neurally. Behavioral studies suggest that vestibular signals play a role in dissociating object motion and self-motion, and recent computational work suggests that a linear decoder can approximate marginalization by taking advantage of diverse multisensory representations. By measuring responses of MSTd neurons in two male rhesus monkeys and by applying a recently-developed method to approximate marginalization by linear population decoding, we tested the hypothesis that vestibular signals help to dissociate self-motion and object motion. We show that vestibular signals stabilize tuning for heading in neurons with congruent visual and vestibular heading preferences, whereas they stabilize tuning for object motion in neurons with discrepant preferences. Thus, vestibular signals enhance the separability of joint tuning for object motion and self-motion. We further show that a linear decoder, designed to approximate marginalization, allows the population to represent either self-motion or object motion with good accuracy. Decoder weights are broadly consistent with a readout strategy, suggested by recent computational work, in which responses are decoded according to the vestibular preferences of multisensory neurons. These results demonstrate, at both single neuron and population levels, that vestibular signals help to dissociate self-motion and object motion.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT The brain often needs to estimate one property of a changing environment while ignoring others. This can be difficult because multiple properties of the environment may be confounded in sensory signals. The brain can solve this problem by marginalizing over irrelevant properties to estimate the property-of-interest. We explore this problem in the context of self-motion and object motion, which are inherently confounded in the retinal image. We examine how diversity in a population of multisensory neurons may be exploited to decode self-motion and object motion from the population activity of neurons in macaque area MSTd.
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Mikellidou K, Kurzawski JW, Frijia F, Montanaro D, Greco V, Burr DC, Morrone MC. Area Prostriata in the Human Brain. Curr Biol 2017; 27:3056-3060.e3. [PMID: 28966090 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2017] [Revised: 05/31/2017] [Accepted: 08/25/2017] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Area prostriata is a cortical area at the fundus of the calcarine sulcus, described anatomically in humans [1-5] and other primates [6-9]. It is lightly myelinated and lacks the clearly defined six-layer structure evident throughout the cerebral cortex, with a thinner layer 4 and thicker layer 2 [10], characteristic of limbic cortex [11]. In the marmoset and rhesus monkey, area prostriata has cortical connections with MT+ [12], the cingulate motor cortex [8], the auditory cortex [13], the orbitofrontal cortex, and the frontal polar cortices [14]. Here we use functional magnetic resonance together with a wide-field projection system to study its functional properties in humans. With population receptive field mapping [15], we show that area prostriata has a complete representation of the visual field, clearly distinct from the adjacent area V1. As in the marmoset, the caudal-dorsal border of human prostriata-abutting V1-represents the far peripheral visual field, with eccentricities decreasing toward its rostral boundary. Area prostriata responds strongly to very fast motion, greater than 500°/s. The functional properties of area prostriata suggest that it may serve to alert the brain quickly to fast visual events, particularly in the peripheral visual field.
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- Kyriaki Mikellidou
- Department of Translational Research on New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, via Savi 10, 56126 Pisa, Italy.
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- Stella Maris Scientific Institute, Viale del Tirreno, 331, 56128 Calambrone, Italy; Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Pharmacology and Child Health, University of Florence, Via di San Salvi 12, 50139 Florence, Italy
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- Unit of Neuroradiology, Fondazione CNR/Regione Toscana G. Monasterio, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Unit of Neuroradiology, Fondazione CNR/Regione Toscana G. Monasterio, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, CNR, Largo Enrico Fermi 6, 50125 Florence, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Pharmacology and Child Health, University of Florence, Via di San Salvi 12, 50139 Florence, Italy; Neuroscience Institute, CNR, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Translational Research on New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, via Savi 10, 56126 Pisa, Italy; Stella Maris Scientific Institute, Viale del Tirreno, 331, 56128 Calambrone, Italy
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Bonkhoff AK, Zimmermann E, Fink GR. Veridical stimulus localization is linked to human area V5/MT+ activity. Neuroimage 2017; 156:377-387. [PMID: 28495637 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2017] [Revised: 04/17/2017] [Accepted: 05/07/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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How the brain represents visual space is an unsolved mystery. Spatial localization becomes particularly challenging when visual information processing is briefly disrupted, as in the case of saccadic eye movements, blinks, or visual masks. As we have recently reported, a compression of visual space, illustrated by displacements of shortly flashed stimuli, can be observed in the temporal vicinity of masking stimuli during ocular fixation (Zimmermann et al., 2013). We here aimed at investigating the neural mechanisms underlying these displacements using functional magnetic resonance imaging. On the behavioral level, we detected significant stimulus displacement when visual masks were simultaneously presented. At the neural level, we observed decreased human motion complex V5/MT+ activation associated with these displacements: When comparing trials with a perceived stimulus shift in space to trials of veridical perception of stimulus localization, human V5/MT+ was significantly less activated although no differences in perceived motion can account for this. Data suggest an important role of human V5/MT+ in the process of spatial localization of briefly presented objects and thus extend current concepts of the functions of human V5/MT+.
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- Anna K Bonkhoff
- Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Centre Juelich, 52425 Juelich, Germany.
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- Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Centre Juelich, 52425 Juelich, Germany
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- Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Centre Juelich, 52425 Juelich, Germany; Department of Neurology, University Hospital Cologne, 50937 Cologne, Germany
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Rooney KK, Condia RJ, Loschky LC. Focal and Ambient Processing of Built Environments: Intellectual and Atmospheric Experiences of Architecture. Front Psychol 2017; 8:326. [PMID: 28360867 PMCID: PMC5353322 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2015] [Accepted: 02/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Neuroscience has well established that human vision divides into the central and peripheral fields of view. Central vision extends from the point of gaze (where we are looking) out to about 5° of visual angle (the width of one's fist at arm's length), while peripheral vision is the vast remainder of the visual field. These visual fields project to the parvo and magno ganglion cells, which process distinctly different types of information from the world around us and project that information to the ventral and dorsal visual streams, respectively. Building on the dorsal/ventral stream dichotomy, we can further distinguish between focal processing of central vision, and ambient processing of peripheral vision. Thus, our visual processing of and attention to objects and scenes depends on how and where these stimuli fall on the retina. The built environment is no exception to these dependencies, specifically in terms of how focal object perception and ambient spatial perception create different types of experiences we have with built environments. We argue that these foundational mechanisms of the eye and the visual stream are limiting parameters of architectural experience. We hypothesize that people experience architecture in two basic ways based on these visual limitations; by intellectually assessing architecture consciously through focal object processing and assessing architecture in terms of atmosphere through pre-conscious ambient spatial processing. Furthermore, these separate ways of processing architectural stimuli operate in parallel throughout the visual perceptual system. Thus, a more comprehensive understanding of architecture must take into account that built environments are stimuli that are treated differently by focal and ambient vision, which enable intellectual analysis of architectural experience versus the experience of architectural atmosphere, respectively. We offer this theoretical model to help advance a more precise understanding of the experience of architecture, which can be tested through future experimentation. (298 words).
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- Kevin K. Rooney
- College of Architecture, Planning, and Design, Kansas State UniversityManhattan, KS, USA
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- Department of Architecture, Kansas State UniversityManhattan, KS, USA
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- Visual Cognition Lab, Department of Psychological Sciences, Kansas State UniversityManhattan, KS, USA
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Strong SL, Silson EH, Gouws AD, Morland AB, McKeefry DJ. Differential processing of the direction and focus of expansion of optic flow stimuli in areas MST and V3A of the human visual cortex. J Neurophysiol 2017; 117:2209-2217. [PMID: 28298300 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00031.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2017] [Revised: 03/02/2017] [Accepted: 03/09/2017] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Human neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies have raised the possibility that different attributes of optic flow stimuli, namely radial direction and the position of the focus of expansion (FOE), are processed within separate cortical areas. In the human brain, visual areas V5/MT+ and V3A have been proposed as integral to the analysis of these different attributes of optic flow stimuli. To establish direct causal relationships between neural activity in human (h)V5/MT+ and V3A and the perception of radial motion direction and FOE position, we used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to disrupt cortical activity in these areas while participants performed behavioral tasks dependent on these different aspects of optic flow stimuli. The cortical regions of interest were identified in seven human participants using standard functional MRI retinotopic mapping techniques and functional localizers. TMS to area V3A was found to disrupt FOE positional judgments but not radial direction discrimination, whereas the application of TMS to an anterior subdivision of hV5/MT+, MST/TO-2 produced the reverse effects, disrupting radial direction discrimination but eliciting no effect on the FOE positional judgment task. This double dissociation demonstrates that FOE position and radial direction of optic flow stimuli are signaled independently by neural activity in areas hV5/MT+ and V3A.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Optic flow constitutes a biologically relevant visual cue as we move through any environment. With the use of neuroimaging and brain-stimulation techniques, this study demonstrates that separate human brain areas are involved in the analysis of the direction of radial motion and the focus of expansion in optic flow. This dissociation reveals the existence of separate processing pathways for the analysis of different attributes of optic flow that are important for the guidance of self-locomotion and object avoidance.
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- Samantha L Strong
- School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.,York Neuroimaging Centre, Department of Psychology, University of York, York, United Kingdom
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- York Neuroimaging Centre, Department of Psychology, University of York, York, United Kingdom.,Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland; and
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- York Neuroimaging Centre, Department of Psychology, University of York, York, United Kingdom
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- York Neuroimaging Centre, Department of Psychology, University of York, York, United Kingdom.,Centre for Neuroscience, Hull-York Medical School, University of York, York, United Kingdom
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- School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom;
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Atkinson J. The Davida Teller Award Lecture, 2016: Visual Brain Development: A review of "Dorsal Stream Vulnerability"-motion, mathematics, amblyopia, actions, and attention. J Vis 2017; 17:26. [PMID: 28362900 PMCID: PMC5381328 DOI: 10.1167/17.3.26] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2016] [Accepted: 01/16/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Research in the Visual Development Unit on "dorsal stream vulnerability' (DSV) arose from research in two somewhat different areas. In the first, using cortical milestones for local and global processing from our neurobiological model, we identified cerebral visual impairment in infants in the first year of life. In the second, using photo/videorefraction in population refractive screening programs, we showed that infant spectacle wear could reduce the incidence of strabismus and amblyopia, but many preschool children, who had been significantly hyperopic earlier, showed visuo-motor and attentional deficits. This led us to compare developing dorsal and ventral streams, using sensitivity to global motion and form as signatures, finding deficits in motion sensitivity relative to form in children with Williams syndrome, or perinatal brain injury in hemiplegia or preterm birth. Later research showed that this "DSV" was common across many disorders, both genetic and acquired, from autism to amblyopia. Here, we extend DSV to be a cluster of problems, common to many disorders, including poor motion sensitivity, visuo-motor spatial integration for planning actions, attention, and number skills. In current research, we find that individual differences in motion coherence sensitivity in typically developing children are correlated with MRI measures of area variations in parietal lobe, fractional anisotropy (from TBSS) of the superior longitudinal fasciculus, and performance on tasks of mathematics and visuo-motor integration. These findings suggest that individual differences in motion sensitivity reflect decision making and attentional control rather than integration in MT/V5 or V3A. Its neural underpinnings may be related to Duncan's "multiple-demand" (MD) system.
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- Janette Atkinson
- University College London, London, ://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=JATKI15
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Dong X, Bai J, Bao M. Robust size illusion produced by expanding and contracting flow fields. Vision Res 2017; 133:87-94. [PMID: 28209526 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2017.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2016] [Revised: 01/01/2017] [Accepted: 01/02/2017] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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A new illusion is described. Randomly positioned dots moved radially within an imaginary annular window. The dots' motion periodically changed the direction, leading to an alternating percept of expanding and contracting motion. Strikingly, the apparent size of the enclosed circular region shrank during the dots' expanding phases and dilated during the contracting phases. We quantitatively measured the illusion, and found that the presence of energy at the local kinetic edge could not account for the illusion. Besides, we reproduced the illusion on a natural scene background seen from a first-person point of view that moved forward and backward periodically. Blurring the boundaries of motion areas could not reverse the illusion in all subjects. Taken together, our observed illusion is likely induced by optic flow processing with some components of motion contrast. Expanding or contracting dots may induce the self-motion perception of either approaching or leaving way from the circle. These will make the circle appear smaller or larger since its retinal size remains constant.
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- Xue Dong
- CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, PR China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, PR China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, PR China.
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Galletti C, Fattori P. The dorsal visual stream revisited: Stable circuits or dynamic pathways? Cortex 2017; 98:203-217. [PMID: 28196647 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2017.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2016] [Revised: 01/05/2017] [Accepted: 01/05/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In both macaque and human brain, information regarding visual motion flows from the extrastriate area V6 along two different paths: a dorsolateral one towards areas MT/V5, MST, V3A, and a dorsomedial one towards the visuomotor areas of the superior parietal lobule (V6A, MIP, VIP). The dorsolateral visual stream is involved in many aspects of visual motion analysis, including the recognition of object motion and self motion. The dorsomedial stream uses visual motion information to continuously monitor the spatial location of objects while we are looking and/or moving around, to allow skilled reaching for and grasping of the objects in structured, dynamically changing environments. Grasping activity is present in two areas of the dorsal stream, AIP and V6A. Area AIP is more involved than V6A in object recognition, V6A in encoding vision for action. We suggest that V6A is involved in the fast control of prehension and plays a critical role in biomechanically selecting appropriate postures during reach to grasp behaviors. In everyday life, numerous functional networks, often involving the same cortical areas, are continuously in action in the dorsal visual stream, with each network dynamically activated or inhibited according to the context. The dorsolateral and dorsomedial streams represent only two examples of these networks. Many others streams have been described in the literature, but it is worthwhile noting that the same cortical area, and even the same neurons within an area, are not specific for just one functional property, being part of networks that encode multiple functional aspects. Our proposal is to conceive the cortical streams not as fixed series of interconnected cortical areas in which each area belongs univocally to one stream and is strictly involved in only one function, but as interconnected neuronal networks, often involving the same neurons, that are involved in a number of functional processes and whose activation changes dynamically according to the context.
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- Claudio Galletti
- Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, 40126, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, 40126, Bologna, Italy.
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Smith AT, Greenlee MW, DeAngelis GC, Angelaki D. Distributed Visual–Vestibular Processing in the Cerebral Cortex of Man and Macaque. Multisens Res 2017. [DOI: 10.1163/22134808-00002568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Recent advances in understanding the neurobiological underpinnings of visual–vestibular interactions underlying self-motion perception are reviewed with an emphasis on comparisons between the macaque and human brains. In both species, several distinct cortical regions have been identified that are active during both visual and vestibular stimulation and in some of these there is clear evidence for sensory integration. Several possible cross-species homologies between cortical regions are identified. A key feature of cortical organization is that the same information is apparently represented in multiple, anatomically diverse cortical regions, suggesting that information about self-motion is used for different purposes in different brain regions.
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- Andrew T. Smith
- Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham TW20 0EX, UK
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- Institute of Experimental Psychology, University of Regensburg, 93053 Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Kirollos R, Allison RS, Palmisano S. Cortical Correlates of the Simulated Viewpoint Oscillation Advantage for Vection. Multisens Res 2017. [DOI: 10.1163/22134808-00002593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Behavioural studies have consistently found stronger vection responses for oscillating, compared to smooth/constant, patterns of radial flow (the simulated viewpoint oscillation advantage for vection). Traditional accounts predict that simulated viewpoint oscillation should impair vection by increasing visual–vestibular conflicts in stationary observers (as this visual oscillation simulates self-accelerations that should strongly stimulate the vestibular apparatus). However, support for increased vestibular activity during accelerating vection has been mixed in the brain imaging literature. This fMRI study examined BOLD activity in visual (cingulate sulcus visual area — CSv; medial temporal complex — MT+; V6; precuneus motion area — PcM) and vestibular regions (parieto-insular vestibular cortex — PIVC/posterior insular cortex — PIC; ventral intraparietal region — VIP) when stationary observers were exposed to vection-inducing optic flow (i.e., globally coherent oscillating and smooth self-motion displays) as well as two suitable control displays. In line with earlier studies in which no vection occurred, CSv and PIVC/PIC both showed significantly increased BOLD activity during oscillating global motion compared to the other motion conditions (although this effect was found for fewer subjects in PIVC/PIC). The increase in BOLD activity in PIVC/PIC during prolonged exposure to the oscillating (compared to smooth) patterns of global optical flow appears consistent with vestibular facilitation.
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- Ramy Kirollos
- Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada
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- Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada
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- Centre for Psychophysics, Psychophysiology, and Psychopharmacology
- School of Psychology, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia
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Strappini F, Gilboa E, Pitzalis S, Kay K, McAvoy M, Nehorai A, Snyder AZ. Adaptive smoothing based on Gaussian processes regression increases the sensitivity and specificity of fMRI data. Hum Brain Mapp 2016; 38:1438-1459. [PMID: 27943516 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2016] [Revised: 10/21/2016] [Accepted: 11/01/2016] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Temporal and spatial filtering of fMRI data is often used to improve statistical power. However, conventional methods, such as smoothing with fixed-width Gaussian filters, remove fine-scale structure in the data, necessitating a tradeoff between sensitivity and specificity. Specifically, smoothing may increase sensitivity (reduce noise and increase statistical power) but at the cost loss of specificity in that fine-scale structure in neural activity patterns is lost. Here, we propose an alternative smoothing method based on Gaussian processes (GP) regression for single subjects fMRI experiments. This method adapts the level of smoothing on a voxel by voxel basis according to the characteristics of the local neural activity patterns. GP-based fMRI analysis has been heretofore impractical owing to computational demands. Here, we demonstrate a new implementation of GP that makes it possible to handle the massive data dimensionality of the typical fMRI experiment. We demonstrate how GP can be used as a drop-in replacement to conventional preprocessing steps for temporal and spatial smoothing in a standard fMRI pipeline. We present simulated and experimental results that show the increased sensitivity and specificity compared to conventional smoothing strategies. Hum Brain Mapp 38:1438-1459, 2017. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Francesca Strappini
- Department of Neurology, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri.,Neurobiology Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 7610001, Israel
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- Preston M. Green Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri.,Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 3200003, Israel
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- Cognitive and Motor Rehabilitation Unit, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, 00179, Italy.,Department of Motor, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico,", Rome, 00194, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri.,Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Radiology, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri
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- Preston M. Green Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri
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- Department of Neurology, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri.,Department of Radiology, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri
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Indovina I, Maffei V, Mazzarella E, Sulpizio V, Galati G, Lacquaniti F. Path integration in 3D from visual motion cues: A human fMRI study. Neuroimage 2016; 142:512-521. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2016] [Revised: 06/23/2016] [Accepted: 07/04/2016] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Braddick O, Atkinson J, Newman E, Akshoomoff N, Kuperman JM, Bartsch H, Chen CH, Dale AM, Jernigan TL. Global Visual Motion Sensitivity: Associations with Parietal Area and Children's Mathematical Cognition. J Cogn Neurosci 2016; 28:1897-1908. [PMID: 27458748 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Sensitivity to global visual motion has been proposed as a signature of brain development, related to the dorsal rather than ventral cortical stream. Thresholds for global motion have been found to be elevated more than for global static form in many developmental disorders, leading to the idea of "dorsal stream vulnerability." Here we explore the association of global motion thresholds with individual differences in children's brain development, in a group of typically developing 5- to 12-year-olds. Good performance was associated with a relative increase in parietal lobe surface area, most strongly around the intraparietal sulcus and decrease in occipital area. In line with the involvement of intraparietal sulcus, areas in visuospatial and numerical cognition, we also found that global motion performance was correlated with tests of visuomotor integration and numerical skills. Individual differences in global form detection showed none of these anatomical or cognitive correlations. This suggests that the correlations with motion sensitivity are unlikely to reflect general perceptual or attentional abilities required for both form and motion. We conclude that individual developmental variations in global motion processing are not linked to greater area in the extrastriate visual areas, which initially process such motion, but in the parietal systems that make decisions based on this information. The overlap with visuospatial and numerical abilities may indicate the anatomical substrate of the "dorsal stream vulnerability" proposed as characterizing neurodevelopmental disorders.
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Mercier MR, Schwartz S, Spinelli L, Michel CM, Blanke O. Dorsal and ventral stream contributions to form-from-motion perception in a patient with form-from motion deficit: a case report. Brain Struct Funct 2016; 222:1093-1107. [PMID: 27318997 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-016-1245-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2014] [Accepted: 05/28/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The main model of visual processing in primates proposes an anatomo-functional distinction between the dorsal stream, specialized in spatio-temporal information, and the ventral stream, processing essentially form information. However, these two pathways also communicate to share much visual information. These dorso-ventral interactions have been studied using form-from-motion (FfM) stimuli, revealing that FfM perception first activates dorsal regions (e.g., MT+/V5), followed by successive activations of ventral regions (e.g., LOC). However, relatively little is known about the implications of focal brain damage of visual areas on these dorso-ventral interactions. In the present case report, we investigated the dynamics of dorsal and ventral activations related to FfM perception (using topographical ERP analysis and electrical source imaging) in a patient suffering from a deficit in FfM perception due to right extrastriate brain damage in the ventral stream. Despite the patient's FfM impairment, both successful (observed for the highest level of FfM signal) and absent/failed FfM perception evoked the same temporal sequence of three processing states observed previously in healthy subjects. During the first period, brain source localization revealed cortical activations along the dorsal stream, currently associated with preserved elementary motion processing. During the latter two periods, the patterns of activity differed from normal subjects: activations were observed in the ventral stream (as reported for normal subjects), but also in the dorsal pathway, with the strongest and most sustained activity localized in the parieto-occipital regions. On the other hand, absent/failed FfM perception was characterized by weaker brain activity, restricted to the more lateral regions. This study shows that in the present case report, successful FfM perception, while following the same temporal sequence of processing steps as in normal subjects, evoked different patterns of brain activity. By revealing a brain circuit involving the most rostral part of the dorsal pathway, this study provides further support for neuro-imaging studies and brain lesion investigations that have suggested the existence of different brain circuits associated with different profiles of interaction between the dorsal and the ventral streams.
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- Manuel R Mercier
- Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain-Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Station 19, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.,The Functional Brain Mapping Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.,Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition (CerCo), CNRS, UMR5549, Pavillon Baudot CHU Purpan, BP 25202, 31052, Toulouse Cedex, France
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- Department of Fundamental Neuroscience, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
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- The Functional Brain Mapping Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain-Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Station 19, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland. .,Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland. .,Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Center for Neuroprosthetics and Brain Mind Institute, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Chemin des Mines 9, 1202, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Parietal cortex mediates perceptual Gestalt grouping independent of stimulus size. Neuroimage 2016; 133:367-377. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2015] [Revised: 01/22/2016] [Accepted: 03/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Corticocortical connection patterns reveal two distinct visual cortical areas bordering dorsal V2 in marmoset monkey. Vis Neurosci 2016; 32:E012. [PMID: 26423121 PMCID: PMC5301919 DOI: 10.1017/s0952523815000097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The organization of the cortex located immediately anterior to the second visual area (V2), i.e., the third tier visual cortex, remains controversial, especially in New World primates. In particular, there is lack of consensus regarding the exact location and extent of the lower visual quadrant representation of the third visual area V3 (or ventrolateral posterior –VLP – of a different nomenclature). Microelectrode and connectional mapping studies have revealed the existence of an upper visual quadrant representation abutting dorsal V2 anteriorly, and bordered medially and laterally by representations of the lower visual quadrant. It remains unclear whether these lower field regions are both part of a single area V3, which is split into two patches by an interposed region of upper field representation, or whether they are the lower field representations of two different areas, the dorsomedial area (DM) and area V3/VLP, respectively. To address this question, we quantitatively analyzed the patterns of corticocortical afferent connections labeled by tracer injections targeted to these two lower field regions in the dorsal aspect of the third tier cortex. We found different inter-areal connectivity patterns arising from these two regions, strongly suggesting that they belong to two different visual areas. In particular, our results indicate that the dorsal aspect of the third tier cortex consists of two distinct areas: a full area DM, representing the lower quadrant medially, and the upper quadrant laterally, and the lower quadrant representation of V3/VLP, located laterally to upper field DM. DM is predominantly connected with areas of the dorsal visual stream, and V3/VLP with areas of the ventral stream. These results prompt further functional investigations of the third tier cortex, as previous studies of this cortical territory may have pooled response properties of two very different areas into a single area V3.
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In macaque, it has long been known since the late nineties that the medial parieto-occipital sulcus (POS) contains two regions, V6 and V6A, important for visual motion and action. While V6 is a retinotopically organized extrastriate area, V6A is a broadly retinotopically organized visuomotor area constituted by a ventral and dorsal subdivision (V6Av and V6Ad), both containing arm movement-related cells active during spatially directed reaching movements. In humans, these areas have been mapped only in recent years thanks to neuroimaging methods. In a series of brain mapping studies, by using a combination of functional magnetic resonance imaging methods such as wide-field retinotopy and task-evoked activity, we mapped human areas V6 (Pitzalis et al., 2006) and V6Av (Pitzalis et al., 2013 d) retinotopically and defined human V6Ad functionally as a pointing-selective region situated anteriorly in the close proximity of V6Av (Tosoni et al., 2014). Like in macaque, human V6 is a motion area (e.g., Pitzalis et al., 2010, 2012, 2013 a, b , c ), while V6Av and V6Ad respond to pointing movements (Tosoni et al., 2014). The retinotopic organization (when present), anatomical position, neighbor relations, and functional properties of these three areas closely resemble those reported for macaque V6 (Galletti et al., 1996, 1999 a), V6Av, and V6Ad (Galletti et al., 1999 b; Gamberini et al., 2011). We suggest that information on objects in depth which are translating in space, because of the self-motion, is processed in V6 and conveyed to V6A for evaluating object distance in a dynamic condition such as that created by self-motion, so to orchestrate the eye and arm movements necessary to reach or avoid static and moving objects in the environment.
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UNLABELLED Cortical areas, such as the dorsal subdivision of the medial superior temporal area (MSTd) and the ventral intraparietal area (VIP), have been shown to integrate visual and vestibular self-motion signals. Area V6 is interconnected with areas MSTd and VIP, allowing for the possibility that V6 also integrates visual and vestibular self-motion cues. An alternative hypothesis in the literature is that V6 does not use these sensory signals to compute heading but instead discounts self-motion signals to represent object motion. However, the responses of V6 neurons to visual and vestibular self-motion cues have never been studied, thus leaving the functional roles of V6 unclear. We used a virtual reality system to examine the 3D heading tuning of macaque V6 neurons in response to optic flow and inertial motion stimuli. We found that the majority of V6 neurons are selective for heading defined by optic flow. However, unlike areas MSTd and VIP, V6 neurons are almost universally unresponsive to inertial motion in the absence of optic flow. We also explored the spatial reference frames of heading signals in V6 by measuring heading tuning for different eye positions, and we found that the visual heading tuning of most V6 cells was eye-centered. Similar to areas MSTd and VIP, the population of V6 neurons was best able to discriminate small variations in heading around forward and backward headings. Our findings support the idea that V6 is involved primarily in processing visual motion signals and does not appear to play a role in visual-vestibular integration for self-motion perception. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT To understand how we successfully navigate our world, it is important to understand which parts of the brain process cues used to perceive our direction of self-motion (i.e., heading). Cortical area V6 has been implicated in heading computations based on human neuroimaging data, but direct measurements of heading selectivity in individual V6 neurons have been lacking. We provide the first demonstration that V6 neurons carry 3D visual heading signals, which are represented in an eye-centered reference frame. In contrast, we found almost no evidence for vestibular heading signals in V6, indicating that V6 is unlikely to contribute to multisensory integration of heading signals, unlike other cortical areas. These findings provide important constraints on the roles of V6 in self-motion perception.
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Wada A, Sakano Y, Ando H. Differential Responses to a Visual Self-Motion Signal in Human Medial Cortical Regions Revealed by Wide-View Stimulation. Front Psychol 2016; 7:309. [PMID: 26973588 PMCID: PMC4777731 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2015] [Accepted: 02/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Vision is important for estimating self-motion, which is thought to involve optic-flow processing. Here, we investigated the fMRI response profiles in visual area V6, the precuneus motion area (PcM), and the cingulate sulcus visual area (CSv)—three medial brain regions recently shown to be sensitive to optic-flow. We used wide-view stereoscopic stimulation to induce robust self-motion processing. Stimuli included static, randomly moving, and coherently moving dots (simulating forward self-motion). We varied the stimulus size and the presence of stereoscopic information. A combination of univariate and multi-voxel pattern analyses (MVPA) revealed that fMRI responses in the three regions differed from each other. The univariate analysis identified optic-flow selectivity and an effect of stimulus size in V6, PcM, and CSv, among which only CSv showed a significantly lower response to random motion stimuli compared with static conditions. Furthermore, MVPA revealed an optic-flow specific multi-voxel pattern in the PcM and CSv, where the discrimination of coherent motion from both random motion and static conditions showed above-chance prediction accuracy, but that of random motion from static conditions did not. Additionally, while area V6 successfully classified different stimulus sizes regardless of motion pattern, this classification was only partial in PcM and was absent in CSv. This may reflect the known retinotopic representation in V6 and the absence of such clear visuospatial representation in CSv. We also found significant correlations between the strength of subjective self-motion and univariate activation in all examined regions except for primary visual cortex (V1). This neuro-perceptual correlation was significantly higher for V6, PcM, and CSv when compared with V1, and higher for CSv when compared with the visual motion area hMT+. Our convergent results suggest the significant involvement of CSv in self-motion processing, which may give rise to its percept.
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- Atsushi Wada
- Multisensory Cognition and Computation Laboratory, Universal Communication Research Institute - National Institute of Information and Communications TechnologyKyoto, Japan; Brain Networks and Communication Laboratory, Center for Information and Neural Networks, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Osaka UniversityOsaka, Japan; Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka UniversityOsaka, Japan
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- Multisensory Cognition and Computation Laboratory, Universal Communication Research Institute - National Institute of Information and Communications TechnologyKyoto, Japan; Brain Networks and Communication Laboratory, Center for Information and Neural Networks, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Osaka UniversityOsaka, Japan; Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka UniversityOsaka, Japan
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- Multisensory Cognition and Computation Laboratory, Universal Communication Research Institute - National Institute of Information and Communications TechnologyKyoto, Japan; Brain Networks and Communication Laboratory, Center for Information and Neural Networks, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Osaka UniversityOsaka, Japan; Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka UniversityOsaka, Japan
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Hashimoto T, Fukui K, Takeuchi H, Yokota S, Kikuchi Y, Tomita H, Taki Y, Kawashima R. Effects of the BDNF Val66Met Polymorphism on Gray Matter Volume in Typically Developing Children and Adolescents. Cereb Cortex 2016; 26:1795-803. [PMID: 26830347 PMCID: PMC4785961 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhw020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The Val66Met polymorphism of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is associated with psychiatric disorders and regional gray matter volume (rGMV) in adults. However, the relationship between BDNF and rGMV in children has not been clarified. In this 3-year cross-sectional/longitudinal (2 time points) study, we investigated the effects of BDNF genotypes on rGMV in 185 healthy Japanese children aged 5.7-18.4 using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and voxel-based morphometry (VBM) analyses. We found that the volume of the right cuneus in Met homozygotes (Met/Met) was greater than in Val homozygotes (Val/Val) in both exams, and the left insula and left ventromedial prefrontal cortex volumes were greater in Val homozygotes versus Met homozygotes in Exam l. In addition, Met homozygous subjects exhibited higher processing speed in intelligence indices than Val homozygotes and Val/Met heterozygotes at both time points. Longitudinal analysis showed that the left temporoparietal junction volume of Val/Met heterozygotes increased more substantially over the 3-year study period than in Val homozygotes, and age-related changes were observed for the Val/Met genotype. Our findings suggest that the presence of 2 Met alleles may have a positive effect on rGMV at the developmental stages analyzed in this study.
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology, Division of Medical Neuroimaging Analysis, Institute Development, Aging and Cancer
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- Department of Disaster Psychiatry, International Research Institute of Disaster Science
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- Department of Disaster Psychiatry, International Research Institute of Disaster Science
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- Division of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology, Division of Medical Neuroimaging Analysis, Institute Development, Aging and Cancer Department of Community Medical Supports, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, 980-8575 Sendai, Japan
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Gorbet DJ, Sergio LE. Don't watch where you're going: The neural correlates of decoupling eye and arm movements. Behav Brain Res 2015; 298:229-40. [PMID: 26589804 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.11.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2015] [Revised: 11/06/2015] [Accepted: 11/09/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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"Standard" visually-guided reaching movements consist of a saccade and an arm movement to the same target location. In the current study, functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to contrast brain activity during standard visually-guided reaches with activity during a "non-standard" visuomotor mapping where the targets of the saccade and arm movement were spatially decoupled. Multi-voxel pattern analysis approaches showed discrimination of standard versus non-standard visuomotor mapping in the cuneus and medial premotor regions without accompanying task-related differences in MRI signal amplitude in these areas. Contrasts of signal amplitude did reveal greater activity associated with the non-standard task relative to the standard task in the right inferior parietal lobule and a portion of the left superior posterior cerebellum. The findings of this study shed light on brain regions involved in overcoming our default tendency to spatially couple eye and arm movements during visually-guided reaching. Further, the results suggest that the regions reported here may be important in neurological disorders such as optic ataxia, Alzheimer's disease, and mild cognitive impairment, which are associated with deficits in producing non-standard visuomotor mappings while leaving standard visuomotor mapping relatively intact.
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- D J Gorbet
- School of Kinesiology and Health Science, Centre for Vision Research, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada.
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- School of Kinesiology and Health Science, Centre for Vision Research, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada.
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Schindler A, Bartels A. Motion parallax links visual motion areas and scene regions. Neuroimage 2015; 125:803-812. [PMID: 26515906 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.10.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2015] [Revised: 09/09/2015] [Accepted: 10/24/2015] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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When we move, the retinal velocities of objects in our surrounding differ according to their relative distances and give rise to a powerful three-dimensional visual cue referred to as motion parallax. Motion parallax allows us to infer our surrounding's 3D structure as well as self-motion based on 2D retinal information. However, the neural substrates mediating the link between visual motion and scene processing are largely unexplored. We used fMRI in human observers to study motion parallax by means of an ecologically relevant yet highly controlled stimulus that mimicked the observer's lateral motion past a depth-layered scene. We found parallax selective responses in parietal regions IPS3 and IPS4, and in a region lateral to scene selective occipital place area (OPA). The traditionally defined scene responsive regions OPA, the para-hippocampal place area (PPA) and the retrosplenial cortex (RSC) did not respond to parallax. During parallax processing, the occipital parallax selective region entertained highly specific functional connectivity with IPS3 and with scene selective PPA. These results establish a network linking dorsal motion and ventral scene processing regions specifically during parallax processing, which may underlie the brain's ability to derive 3D scene information from motion parallax.
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- Andreas Schindler
- Vision and Cognition Lab, Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72076, Germany.
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- Vision and Cognition Lab, Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72076, Germany.
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Sulpizio V, Committeri G, Lambrey S, Berthoz A, Galati G. Role of the human retrosplenial cortex/parieto-occipital sulcus in perspective priming. Neuroimage 2015; 125:108-119. [PMID: 26484830 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.10.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2015] [Accepted: 10/15/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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The ability to imagine the world from a different viewpoint is a fundamental competence for spatial reorientation and for imagining what another individual sees in the environment. Here, we investigated the neural bases of such an ability using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Healthy participants detected target displacements across consecutive views of a familiar virtual room, either from the perspective of an avatar (primed condition) or in the absence of such a prime (unprimed condition). In the primed condition, the perspective at test always corresponded to the avatar's perspective, while in the unprimed condition it was randomly chosen as 0, 45 or 135deg of viewpoint rotation. We observed a behavioral advantage in performing a perspective transformation during the primed condition as compared to an equivalent amount of unprimed perspective change. Although many cortical regions (dorsal parietal, parieto-temporo-occipital junction, precuneus and retrosplenial cortex/parieto-occipital sulcus or RSC/POS) were involved in encoding and retrieving target location from different perspectives and were modulated by the amount of viewpoint rotation, the RSC/POS was the only area showing decreased activity in the primed as compared to the unprimed condition, suggesting that this region anticipates the upcoming perspective change. The retrosplenial cortex/parieto-occipital sulcus appears to play a special role in the allocentric coding of heading directions.
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- Valentina Sulpizio
- Department of Psychology, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy; Laboratory of Neuropsychology, Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS, Roma, Italy.
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- Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, and ITAB, Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies, University G. d'Annunzio, Chieti, Italy
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- LPPA, Collège de France-CNRS, Paris, France; Service de Psychiatrie Adulte, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy; Laboratory of Neuropsychology, Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS, Roma, Italy
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Functional connections between optic flow areas and navigationally responsive brain regions during goal-directed navigation. Neuroimage 2015; 118:386-96. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2015] [Revised: 05/27/2015] [Accepted: 06/02/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Hietanen MA. The relative contributions of global and local acceleration components on speed perception and discriminability following adaptation. Vision Res 2015; 115:135-41. [PMID: 26278165 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2015.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2015] [Revised: 06/12/2015] [Accepted: 06/23/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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The perception of speed is dependent on the history of previously presented speeds. Adaptation to a given speed regularly results in a reduction of perceived speed and an increase in speed discriminability and in certain circumstances can result in an increase in perceived speed. In order to determine the relative contributions of the local and global speed components on perceived speed, this experiment used expanding dot flow fields with accelerating (global), decelerating (global) and mixed accelerating/decelerating (local) speed patterns. Profound decreases in perceived speed are found when viewing low test speeds after adaptation to high speeds. Small increases in the perceived speed of high test speeds occur following adaptation to low speeds. There were small but significant differences in perceived stimulus speed after adaptation due to different acceleration profiles. No evidence for global modulation of speed discriminability following adaptation was found.
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- Markus A Hietanen
- National Vision Research Institute, Australian College of Optometry, Cnr Cardigan and Keppel Street, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia; ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function and Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia.
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The spatial topography of visual attention is a distinguishing and critical feature of many theoretical models of visuospatial attention. Previous fMRI-based measurements of the topography of attention have typically been too crude to adequately test the predictions of different competing models. This study demonstrates a new technique to make detailed measurements of the topography of visuospatial attention from single-voxel, fMRI time courses. Briefly, this technique involves first estimating a voxel's population receptive field (pRF) and then "drifting" attention through the pRF such that the modulation of the voxel's fMRI time course reflects the spatial topography of attention. The topography of the attentional field (AF) is then estimated using a time-course modeling procedure. Notably, we are able to make these measurements in many visual areas including smaller, higher order areas, thus enabling a more comprehensive comparison of attentional mechanisms throughout the full hierarchy of human visual cortex. Using this technique, we show that the AF scales with eccentricity and varies across visual areas. We also show that voxels in multiple visual areas exhibit suppressive attentional effects that are well modeled by an AF having an enhancing Gaussian center with a suppressive surround. These findings provide extensive, quantitative neurophysiological data for use in modeling the psychological effects of visuospatial attention.
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Uesaki M, Ashida H. Optic-flow selective cortical sensory regions associated with self-reported states of vection. Front Psychol 2015; 6:775. [PMID: 26106350 PMCID: PMC4459088 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2015] [Accepted: 05/25/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Optic flow is one of the most important visual cues to the estimation of self-motion. It has repeatedly been demonstrated that a cortical network including visual, multisensory, and vestibular areas is implicated in processing optic flow; namely, visual areas middle temporal cortex (MT+), V6; multisensory areas ventral intra-parietal area (VIP), cingulate sulcus visual area, precuneus motion area (PcM); and vestibular areas parieto-insular vestibular cortex (PIVC) and putative area 2v (p2v). However, few studies have investigated the roles of and interaction between the optic-flow selective sensory areas within the context of self-motion perception. When visual information (i.e., optic flow) is the sole cue to computing self-motion parameters, the discrepancy amongst the sensory signals may induce an illusion of self-motion referred to as ‘vection.’ This study aimed to identify optic-flow selective sensory areas that are involved in the processing of visual cues to self-motion, by introducing vection as an index and assessing activation in which of those areas reflect vection, using functional magnetic resonance imaging. The results showed that activity in visual areas MT+ and V6, multisensory area VIP and vestibular area PIVC was significantly greater while participants were experiencing vection, as compared to when they were experiencing no vection, which may indicate that activation in MT+, V6, VIP, and PIVC reflects vection. The results also place VIP in a good position to integrate visual cues related to self-motion and vestibular information.
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- Maiko Uesaki
- Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto Japan ; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo Japan
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- Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto Japan
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DeYoe EA, Ulmer JL, Mueller WM, Sabsevitz DS, Reitsma DC, Pillai JJ. Imaging of the Functional and Dysfunctional Visual System. Semin Ultrasound CT MR 2015; 36:234-48. [PMID: 26233858 DOI: 10.1053/j.sult.2015.05.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is used clinically to map the visual cortex before brain surgery or other invasive treatments to achieve an optimal balance between therapeutic effect and the avoidance of postoperative vision deficits. Clinically optimized stimuli, analyses, and displays permit identification of cortical subregions supporting high-acuity central vision that is critical for reading and other essential visual functions. A novel data display permits instant appreciation of the functional relationship between the pattern of fMRI brain activation and the pattern of vision loss and preservation within the patient׳s field of view. Neurovascular uncoupling and its detection in the visual cortex are key issues for the interpretation of fMRI results in patients with existing brain pathology.
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- Edgar A DeYoe
- Department of Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
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- Department of Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- Department of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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Hutchison RM, Culham JC, Flanagan JR, Everling S, Gallivan JP. Functional subdivisions of medial parieto-occipital cortex in humans and nonhuman primates using resting-state fMRI. Neuroimage 2015; 116:10-29. [PMID: 25970649 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.04.068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2015] [Revised: 03/31/2015] [Accepted: 04/29/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Based on its diverse and wide-spread patterns of connectivity, primate posteromedial cortex (PMC) is well positioned to support roles in several aspects of sensory-, cognitive- and motor-related processing. Previous work in both humans and non-human primates (NHPs) using resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) suggests that a subregion of PMC, the medial parieto-occipital cortex (mPOC), by virtue of its intrinsic functional connectivity (FC) with visual cortex, may only play a role in higher-order visual processing. Recent neuroanatomical tracer studies in NHPs, however, demonstrate that mPOC also has prominent cortico-cortical connections with several frontoparietal structures involved in movement planning and control, a finding consistent with increasing observations of reach- and grasp-related activity in the mPOC of both NHPs and humans. To reconcile these observations, here we used rs-fMRI data collected from both awake humans and anesthetized macaque monkeys to more closely examine and compare parcellations of mPOC across species and explore the FC patterns associated with these subdivisions. Seed-based and voxel-wise hierarchical cluster analyses revealed four broad spatially separated functional boundaries that correspond with graded differences in whole-brain FC patterns in each species. The patterns of FC observed are consistent with mPOC forming a critical hub of networks involved in action planning and control, spatial navigation, and working memory. In addition, our comparison between species indicates that while there are several similarities, there may be some species-specific differences in functional neural organization. These findings and the associated theoretical implications are discussed.
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- R Matthew Hutchison
- Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
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- Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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Neural substrates underlying the passive observation and active control of translational egomotion. J Neurosci 2015; 35:4258-67. [PMID: 25762672 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2647-14.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Moving or static obstacles often get in the way while walking in daily life. Avoiding obstacles involves both perceptual processing of motion information and controlling appropriate defensive movements. Several higher-level motion areas, including the ventral intraparietal area (VIP), medial superior temporal area, parieto-insular vestibular cortex (PIVC), areas V6 and V6A, and cingulate sulcus visual area, have been identified in humans by passive viewing of optic flow patterns that simulate egomotion and object motion. However, the roles of these areas in the active control of egomotion in the real world remain unclear. Here, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to map the neural substrates underlying the passive observation and active control of translational egomotion in humans. A wide-field virtual reality environment simulated a daily scenario where doors randomly swing outward while walking in a hallway. The stimuli of door-dodging events were essentially the same in two event-related fMRI experiments, which compared passive and active dodges in response to swinging doors. Passive dodges were controlled by a computer program, while active dodges were controlled by the subject. Passive dodges activated several higher-level areas distributed across three dorsal motion streams in the temporal, parietal, and cingulate cortex. Active dodges most strongly activated the temporal-vestibular stream, with peak activation located in the right PIVC. Other higher-level motion areas including VIP showed weaker to no activation in active dodges. These results suggest that PIVC plays an active role in sensing and guiding translational egomotion that moves an observer aside from impending obstacles.
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Palmisano S, Allison RS, Schira MM, Barry RJ. Future challenges for vection research: definitions, functional significance, measures, and neural bases. Front Psychol 2015; 6:193. [PMID: 25774143 PMCID: PMC4342884 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2014] [Accepted: 02/07/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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This paper discusses four major challenges facing modern vection research. Challenge 1 (Defining Vection) outlines the different ways that vection has been defined in the literature and discusses their theoretical and experimental ramifications. The term vection is most often used to refer to visual illusions of self-motion induced in stationary observers (by moving, or simulating the motion of, the surrounding environment). However, vection is increasingly being used to also refer to non-visual illusions of self-motion, visually mediated self-motion perceptions, and even general subjective experiences (i.e., “feelings”) of self-motion. The common thread in all of these definitions is the conscious subjective experience of self-motion. Thus, Challenge 2 (Significance of Vection) tackles the crucial issue of whether such conscious experiences actually serve functional roles during self-motion (e.g., in terms of controlling or guiding the self-motion). After more than 100 years of vection research there has been surprisingly little investigation into its functional significance. Challenge 3 (Vection Measures) discusses the difficulties with existing subjective self-report measures of vection (particularly in the context of contemporary research), and proposes several more objective measures of vection based on recent empirical findings. Finally, Challenge 4 (Neural Basis) reviews the recent neuroimaging literature examining the neural basis of vection and discusses the hurdles still facing these investigations.
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- Stephen Palmisano
- School of Psychology, University of Wollongong Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University Toronto, ON, Canada
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- School of Psychology, University of Wollongong Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of Wollongong Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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Arnoldussen DM, Goossens J, van Den Berg AV. Dissociation of retinal and headcentric disparity signals in dorsal human cortex. Front Syst Neurosci 2015; 9:16. [PMID: 25759642 PMCID: PMC4338660 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2014] [Accepted: 02/02/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Recent fMRI studies have shown fusion of visual motion and disparity signals for shape perception (Ban et al., 2012), and unmasking camouflaged surfaces (Rokers et al., 2009), but no such interaction is known for typical dorsal motion pathway tasks, like grasping and navigation. Here, we investigate human speed perception of forward motion and its representation in the human motion network. We observe strong interaction in medial (V3ab, V6) and lateral motion areas (MT+), which differ significantly. Whereas the retinal disparity dominates the binocular contribution to the BOLD activity in the anterior part of area MT+, headcentric disparity modulation of the BOLD response dominates in area V3ab and V6. This suggests that medial motion areas not only represent rotational speed of the head (Arnoldussen et al., 2011), but also translational speed of the head relative to the scene. Interestingly, a strong response to vergence eye movements was found in area V1, which showed a dependency on visual direction, just like vertical-size disparity. This is the first report of a vertical-size disparity correlate in human striate cortex.
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- David M Arnoldussen
- Section Biophysics, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior Nijmegen, Netherlands ; School of Psychology, University of Nottingham Nottingham, UK
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- Section Biophysics, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Section Biophysics, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior Nijmegen, Netherlands
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Apthorp D, Nagle F, Palmisano S. Chaos in balance: non-linear measures of postural control predict individual variations in visual illusions of motion. PLoS One 2014; 9:e113897. [PMID: 25462216 PMCID: PMC4252150 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2014] [Accepted: 10/31/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Visually-induced illusions of self-motion (vection) can be compelling for some people, but they are subject to large individual variations in strength. Do these variations depend, at least in part, on the extent to which people rely on vision to maintain their postural stability? We investigated by comparing physical posture measures to subjective vection ratings. Using a Bertec balance plate in a brightly-lit room, we measured 13 participants' excursions of the centre of foot pressure (CoP) over a 60-second period with eyes open and with eyes closed during quiet stance. Subsequently, we collected vection strength ratings for large optic flow displays while seated, using both verbal ratings and online throttle measures. We also collected measures of postural sway (changes in anterior-posterior CoP) in response to the same visual motion stimuli while standing on the plate. The magnitude of standing sway in response to expanding optic flow (in comparison to blank fixation periods) was predictive of both verbal and throttle measures for seated vection. In addition, the ratio between eyes-open and eyes-closed CoP excursions during quiet stance (using the area of postural sway) significantly predicted seated vection for both measures. Interestingly, these relationships were weaker for contracting optic flow displays, though these produced both stronger vection and more sway. Next we used a non-linear analysis (recurrence quantification analysis, RQA) of the fluctuations in anterior-posterior position during quiet stance (both with eyes closed and eyes open); this was a much stronger predictor of seated vection for both expanding and contracting stimuli. Given the complex multisensory integration involved in postural control, our study adds to the growing evidence that non-linear measures drawn from complexity theory may provide a more informative measure of postural sway than the conventional linear measures.
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- Deborah Apthorp
- Research School of Psychology, College of Medicine, Biology & Environment, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
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- Centre for Mathematics, Physics and Engineering in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
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Monaco S, Sedda A, Cavina-Pratesi C, Culham JC. Neural correlates of object size and object location during grasping actions. Eur J Neurosci 2014; 41:454-65. [DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2014] [Revised: 09/23/2014] [Accepted: 10/15/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- Simona Monaco
- Centre for Vision Research; York University; Toronto ON Canada
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- Department of Brain and Behavioural Sciences; University of Pavia; Pavia Italy
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- Brain and Mind Institute; Department of Psychology; and Neuroscience Program; University of Western Ontario; London ON Canada
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Bernardino I, Rebola J, Farivar R, Silva E, Castelo-Branco M. Functional Reorganization of the Visual Dorsal Stream as Probed by 3-D Visual Coherence in Williams Syndrome. J Cogn Neurosci 2014; 26:2624-36. [DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Object and depth perception from motion cues involves the recruitment of visual dorsal stream brain areas. In 3-D structure-from-motion (SFM) perception, motion and depth information are first extracted in this visual stream to allow object categorization, which is in turn mediated by the ventral visual stream. Such interplay justifies the use of SFM paradigms to understand dorsal–ventral integration of visual information. The nature of such processing is particularly interesting to be investigated in a neurological model of cognitive dissociation between dorsal (impaired) and ventral stream (relatively preserved) processing, Williams syndrome (WS). In the current fMRI study, we assessed dorsal versus ventral stream processing by using a performance-matched 3-D SFM object categorization task. We found evidence for substantial reorganization of the dorsal stream in WS as assessed by whole-brain ANOVA random effects analysis, with subtle differences in ventral activation. Dorsal reorganization was expressed by larger medial recruitment in WS (cuneus, precuneus, and retrosplenial cortex) in contrast with controls, which showed the expected dorsolateral pattern (caudal intraparietal sulcus and lateral occipital cortex). In summary, we found a substantial reorganization of dorsal stream regions in WS in response to simple visual categories and 3-D SFM perception, with less affected ventral stream. Our results corroborate the existence of a medial dorsal pathway that provides the substrate for information rerouting and reorganization in the presence of lateral dorsal stream vulnerability. This interpretation is consistent with recent findings suggesting parallel routing of information in medial and lateral parts of dorsal stream.
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- 2Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
- 3McGill University
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Abstracts - XII Congresso Nazionale AINR di Neuroradiologia Pediatrica, Milano 2-4 ottobre 2014. Neuroradiol J 2014; 27:520-583. [PMID: 25260204 PMCID: PMC4237106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2014] [Accepted: 08/29/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023] Open
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Giovedì 2 Ottobre. Neuroradiol J 2014. [DOI: 10.1177/197140091402700505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Tosoni A, Pitzalis S, Committeri G, Fattori P, Galletti C, Galati G. Resting-state connectivity and functional specialization in human medial parieto-occipital cortex. Brain Struct Funct 2014; 220:3307-21. [PMID: 25096286 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-014-0858-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2013] [Accepted: 07/24/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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According to recent models of visuo-spatial processing, the medial parieto-occipital cortex is a crucial node of the dorsal visual stream. Evidence from neurophysiological studies in monkeys has indicated that the parieto-occipital sulcus (POS) contains three functionally and cytoarchitectonically distinct areas: the visual area V6 in the fundus of the POS, and the visuo-motor areas V6Av and V6Ad in a progressively dorsal and anterior location with respect to V6. Besides different topographical organization, cytoarchitectonics, and functional properties, these three monkey areas can also be distinguished based on their patterns of cortico-cortical connections. Thanks to wide-field retinotopic mapping, areas V6 and V6Av have been also mapped in the human brain. Here, using a combined approach of resting-state functional connectivity and task-evoked activity by fMRI, we identified a new region in the anterior POS showing a pattern of functional properties and cortical connections that suggests a homology with the monkey area V6Ad. In addition, we observed distinct patterns of cortical connections associated with the human V6 and V6Av which are remarkably consistent with those showed by the anatomical tracing studies in the corresponding monkey areas. Consistent with recent models on visuo-spatial processing, our findings demonstrate a gradient of functional specialization and cortical connections within the human POS, with more posterior regions primarily dedicated to the analysis of visual attributes useful for spatial navigation and more anterior regions primarily dedicated to analyses of spatial information relevant for goal-directed action.
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- Annalisa Tosoni
- Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, G. D'Annunzio University, Via dei Vestini, 33, 66013, Chieti, Italy. .,Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies "ITAB", G. D'Annunzio Foundation, Chieti, Italy.
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- Department of Motor, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico", Rome, Italy.,Laboratory of Neuropsychology, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, G. D'Annunzio University, Via dei Vestini, 33, 66013, Chieti, Italy.,Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies "ITAB", G. D'Annunzio Foundation, Chieti, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Laboratory of Neuropsychology, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy.,Department of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
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Putcha D, Ross RS, Rosen ML, Norton DJ, Cronin-Golomb A, Somers DC, Stern CE. Functional correlates of optic flow motion processing in Parkinson's disease. Front Integr Neurosci 2014; 8:57. [PMID: 25071484 PMCID: PMC4086480 DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2014.00057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2014] [Accepted: 06/24/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The visual input created by the relative motion between an individual and the environment, also called optic flow, influences the sense of self-motion, postural orientation, veering of gait, and visuospatial cognition. An optic flow network comprising visual motion areas V6, V3A, and MT+, as well as visuo-vestibular areas including posterior insula vestibular cortex (PIVC) and cingulate sulcus visual area (CSv), has been described as uniquely selective for parsing egomotion depth cues in humans. Individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD) have known behavioral deficits in optic flow perception and visuospatial cognition compared to age- and education-matched control adults (MC). The present study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate neural correlates related to impaired optic flow perception in PD. We conducted fMRI on 40 non-demented participants (23 PD and 17 MC) during passive viewing of simulated optic flow motion and random motion. We hypothesized that compared to the MC group, PD participants would show abnormal neural activity in regions comprising this optic flow network. MC participants showed robust activation across all regions in the optic flow network, consistent with studies in young adults, suggesting intact optic flow perception at the neural level in healthy aging. PD participants showed diminished activity compared to MC particularly within visual motion area MT+ and the visuo-vestibular region CSv. Further, activation in visuo-vestibular region CSv was associated with disease severity. These findings suggest that behavioral reports of impaired optic flow perception and visuospatial performance may be a result of impaired neural processing within visual motion and visuo-vestibular regions in PD.
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- Deepti Putcha
- Department of Psychology, Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University Boston, MA, USA ; Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University Boston, MA, USA ; Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA, USA ; Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire Durham, NH, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University Boston, MA, USA ; Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University Boston, MA, USA ; Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University Boston, MA, USA ; Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA, USA
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