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Feuerriegel D. Adaptation in the visual system: Networked fatigue or suppressed prediction error signalling? Cortex 2024; 177:302-320. [PMID: 38905873 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2024.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2024] [Revised: 05/10/2024] [Accepted: 06/04/2024] [Indexed: 06/23/2024]
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Our brains are constantly adapting to changes in our visual environments. Neural adaptation exerts a persistent influence on the activity of sensory neurons and our perceptual experience, however there is a lack of consensus regarding how adaptation is implemented in the visual system. One account describes fatigue-based mechanisms embedded within local networks of stimulus-selective neurons (networked fatigue models). Another depicts adaptation as a product of stimulus expectations (predictive coding models). In this review, I evaluate neuroimaging and psychophysical evidence that poses fundamental problems for predictive coding models of neural adaptation. Specifically, I discuss observations of distinct repetition and expectation effects, as well as incorrect predictions of repulsive adaptation aftereffects made by predictive coding accounts. Based on this evidence, I argue that networked fatigue models provide a more parsimonious account of adaptation effects in the visual system. Although stimulus expectations can be formed based on recent stimulation history, any consequences of these expectations are likely to co-occur (or interact) with effects of fatigue-based adaptation. I conclude by proposing novel, testable hypotheses relating to interactions between fatigue-based adaptation and other predictive processes, focusing on stimulus feature extrapolation phenomena.
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- Daniel Feuerriegel
- Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
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Chen S, Lu H, Cheng C, Ye Z, Hua T. Rapidly repeated visual stimulation induces long-term potentiation of VEPs and increased content of membrane AMPA and NMDA receptors in the V1 cortex of cats. Front Neurosci 2024; 18:1386801. [PMID: 38831757 PMCID: PMC11144871 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2024.1386801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2024] [Accepted: 04/25/2024] [Indexed: 06/05/2024] Open
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Studies report that rapidly repeated sensory stimulation can evoke LTP-like improvement of neural response in the sensory cortex. Whether this neural response potentiation is similar to the classic LTP induced by presynaptic electrical stimulation remains unclear. This study examined the effects of repeated high-frequency (9 Hz) versus low-frequency (1 Hz) visual stimulation on visually-evoked field potentials (VEPs) and the membrane protein content of AMPA / NMDA receptors in the primary visual cortex (V1) of cats. The results showed that repeated high-frequency visual stimulation (HFS) caused a long-term improvement in peak-to-peak amplitude of V1-cortical VEPs in response to visual stimuli at HFS-stimulated orientation (SO: 90°) and non-stimulated orientation (NSO: 180°), but the effect exhibited variations depending on stimulus orientation: the amplitude increase of VEPs in response to visual stimuli at SO was larger, reached a maximum earlier and lasted longer than at NSO. By contrast, repeated low-frequency visual stimulation (LFS) had not significantly affected the amplitude of V1-cortical VEPs in response to visual stimuli at both SO and NSO. Furthermore, the membrane protein content of the key subunit GluA1 of AMPA receptors and main subunit NR1 of AMPA receptors in V1 cortex was significantly increased after HFS but not LFS when compared with that of control cats. Taken together, these results indicate that HFS can induce LTP-like improvement of VEPs and an increase in membrane protein of AMPA and NMDA receptors in the V1 cortex of cats, which is similar to but less specific to stimulus orientation than the classic LTP.
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- College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui, China
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Lewis CM, Wunderle T, Fries P. Top-down modulation of visual cortical stimulus encoding and gamma independent of firing rates. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.04.11.589006. [PMID: 38645050 PMCID: PMC11030389 DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.11.589006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/23/2024]
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Neurons in primary visual cortex integrate sensory input with signals reflecting the animal's internal state to support flexible behavior. Internal variables, such as expectation, attention, or current goals, are imposed in a top-down manner via extensive feedback projections from higher-order areas. We optogenetically activated a high-order visual area, area 21a, in the lightly anesthetized cat (OptoTD), while recording from neuronal populations in V1. OptoTD induced strong, up to several fold, changes in gamma-band synchronization together with much smaller changes in firing rate, and the two effects showed no correlation. OptoTD effects showed specificity for the features of the simultaneously presented visual stimuli. OptoTD-induced changes in gamma synchronization, but not firing rates, were predictive of simultaneous changes in the amount of encoded stimulus information. Our findings suggest that one important role of top-down signals is to modulate synchronization and the information encoded by populations of sensory neurons.
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Yiling Y, Klon-Lipok J, Shapcott K, Lazar A, Singer W. Dynamic fading memory and expectancy effects in the monkey primary visual cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2024; 121:e2314855121. [PMID: 38354261 PMCID: PMC10895277 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2314855121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2023] [Accepted: 01/10/2024] [Indexed: 02/16/2024] Open
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In order to investigate the involvement of the primary visual cortex (V1) in working memory (WM), parallel, multisite recordings of multi-unit activity were obtained from monkey V1 while the animals performed a delayed match-to-sample (DMS) task. During the delay period, V1 population firing rate vectors maintained a lingering trace of the sample stimulus that could be reactivated by intervening impulse stimuli that enhanced neuronal firing. This fading trace of the sample did not require active engagement of the monkeys in the DMS task and likely reflects the intrinsic dynamics of recurrent cortical networks in lower visual areas. This renders an active, attention-dependent involvement of V1 in the maintenance of WM contents unlikely. By contrast, population responses to the test stimulus depended on the probabilistic contingencies between sample and test stimuli. Responses to tests that matched expectations were reduced which agrees with concepts of predictive coding.
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- Yang Yiling
- Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt am Main60528, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main60438, Germany
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt am Main60528, Germany
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt am Main60528, Germany
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt am Main60528, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main60438, Germany
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt am Main60438, Germany
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Yeon J, Larson AS, Rahnev D, D'Esposito M. Task learning is subserved by a domain-general brain network. Cereb Cortex 2024; 34:bhae013. [PMID: 38282457 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhae013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2023] [Revised: 01/04/2023] [Accepted: 01/06/2023] [Indexed: 01/30/2024] Open
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One of the most important human faculties is the ability to acquire not just new memories but the capacity to perform entirely new tasks. However, little is known about the brain mechanisms underlying the learning of novel tasks. Specifically, it is unclear to what extent learning of different tasks depends on domain-general and/or domain-specific brain mechanisms. Here human subjects (n = 45) learned to perform 6 new tasks while undergoing functional MRI. The different tasks required the engagement of perceptual, motor, and various cognitive processes related to attention, expectation, speed-accuracy tradeoff, and metacognition. We found that a bilateral frontoparietal network was more active during the initial compared with the later stages of task learning, and that this effect was stronger for task variants requiring more new learning. Critically, the same frontoparietal network was engaged by all 6 tasks, demonstrating its domain generality. Finally, although task learning decreased the overall activity in the frontoparietal network, it increased the connectivity strength between the different nodes of that network. These results demonstrate the existence of a domain-general brain network whose activity and connectivity reflect learning for a variety of new tasks, and thus may underlie the human capacity for acquiring new abilities.
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- Jiwon Yeon
- School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States
- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 90564, United States
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- School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States
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- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
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Katsanevaki C, Bastos AM, Cagnan H, Bosman CA, Friston KJ, Fries P. Attentional effects on local V1 microcircuits explain selective V1-V4 communication. Neuroimage 2023; 281:120375. [PMID: 37714390 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2023] [Revised: 09/10/2023] [Accepted: 09/11/2023] [Indexed: 09/17/2023] Open
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Selective attention implements preferential routing of attended stimuli, likely through increasing the influence of the respective synaptic inputs on higher-area neurons. As the inputs of competing stimuli converge onto postsynaptic neurons, presynaptic circuits might offer the best target for attentional top-down influences. If those influences enabled presynaptic circuits to selectively entrain postsynaptic neurons, this might explain selective routing. Indeed, when two visual stimuli induce two gamma rhythms in V1, only the gamma induced by the attended stimulus entrains gamma in V4. Here, we modelled induced responses with a Dynamic Causal Model for Cross-Spectral Densities and found that selective entrainment can be explained by attentional modulation of intrinsic V1 connections. Specifically, local inhibition was decreased in the granular input layer and increased in the supragranular output layer of the V1 circuit that processed the attended stimulus. Thus, presynaptic attentional influences and ensuing entrainment were sufficient to mediate selective routing.
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- Christini Katsanevaki
- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt 60528, Germany; International Max Planck Research School for Neural Circuits, Frankfurt 60438, Germany.
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt 60528, Germany; Department of Psychology and Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USA
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- The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, UK; Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TH, UK
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen 6525 EN, the Netherlands; Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Center for Neuroscience, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1098 XH, the Netherlands
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- The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, UK
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt 60528, Germany; International Max Planck Research School for Neural Circuits, Frankfurt 60438, Germany; Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen 6525 EN, the Netherlands
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Yamane Y, Ito J, Joana C, Fujita I, Tamura H, Maldonado PE, Doya K, Grün S. Neuronal Population Activity in Macaque Visual Cortices Dynamically Changes through Repeated Fixations in Active Free Viewing. eNeuro 2023; 10:ENEURO.0086-23.2023. [PMID: 37798110 PMCID: PMC10591287 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0086-23.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2023] [Revised: 09/20/2023] [Accepted: 10/02/2023] [Indexed: 10/07/2023] Open
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During free viewing, we move our eyes and fixate on objects to recognize the visual scene of our surroundings. To investigate the neural representation of objects in this process, we studied individual and population neuronal activity in three different visual regions of the brains of macaque monkeys (Macaca fuscata): the primary and secondary visual cortices (V1, V2) and the inferotemporal cortex (IT). We designed a task where the animal freely selected objects in a stimulus image to fixate on while we examined the relationship between spiking activity, the order of fixations, and the fixated objects. We found that activity changed across repeated fixations on the same object in all three recorded areas, with observed reductions in firing rates. Furthermore, the responses of individual neurons became sparser and more selective with individual objects. The population activity for individual objects also became distinct. These results suggest that visual neurons respond dynamically to repeated input stimuli through a smaller number of spikes, thereby allowing for discrimination between individual objects with smaller energy.
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- Yukako Yamane
- Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6 and INM-10) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich 52425, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6 and INM-10) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich 52425, Germany
- CAS Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Neuroscience and Instituto de Neurosciencia Biomedica (BNI), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago 8380453, Chile
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- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6 and INM-10) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich 52425, Germany
- Theoretical Systems Neurobiology, Rheinisch Westfaelische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen University, Aachen 52056, Germany
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Wang Y, Shi X, Si B, Cheng B, Chen J. Synchronization and oscillation behaviors of excitatory and inhibitory populations with spike-timing-dependent plasticity. Cogn Neurodyn 2023; 17:715-727. [PMID: 37265649 PMCID: PMC10229527 DOI: 10.1007/s11571-022-09840-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2022] [Revised: 06/06/2022] [Accepted: 06/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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The effect of synaptic plasticity on the synchronization mechanism of the cerebral cortex has been a hot research topic over the past two decades. There are a great deal of literatures on excitatory pyramidal neurons, but the mechanism of interaction between the inhibitory interneurons is still under exploration. In this study, we consider a complex network consisting of excitatory (E) pyramidal neurons and inhibitory (I) interneurons interacting with chemical synapses through spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP). To study the effects of eSTDP and iSTDP on synchronization and oscillation behaviors emerged in an excitatory-inhibitory balanced network, we analyzed three different cases, a small-world network of purely excitatory neurons with eSTDP, a small-world network of purely inhibitory neurons with iSTDP and a small-world network with excitatory-inhibitory balanced neurons. By varying the number of inhibitory interneurons, and that of connected edges in a small-world network, and the coupling strength, these networks exhibit different synchronization and oscillation behaviors. We found that the eSTDP facilitates synchronization effectively, while iSTDP has no significant impact on it. In addition, eSTDP and iSTDP restrict the balance of the excitatory-inhibitory balanced neuronal network together and play a fundamental role in maintaining network stability and synchronization. They also can be used to guide the treatment and further research of neurodegenerative diseases.
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- Yuan Wang
- Brain and Autonomous Intelligent Robots Lab, School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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- Brain and Autonomous Intelligent Robots Lab, School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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Mockevičius A, Šveistytė K, Griškova-Bulanova I. Individual/Peak Gamma Frequency: What Do We Know? Brain Sci 2023; 13:brainsci13050792. [PMID: 37239264 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci13050792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2023] [Revised: 05/05/2023] [Accepted: 05/11/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
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In recent years, the concept of individualized measures of electroencephalographic (EEG) activity has emerged. Gamma-band activity plays an important role in many sensory and cognitive processes. Thus, peak frequency in the gamma range has received considerable attention. However, peak or individual gamma frequency (IGF) is rarely used as a primary measure of interest; consequently, little is known about its nature and functional significance. With this review, we attempt to comprehensively overview available information on the functional properties of peak gamma frequency, addressing its relationship with certain processes and/or modulation by various factors. Here, we show that IGFs seem to be related to various endogenous and exogenous factors. Broad functional aspects that are related to IGF might point to the differences in underlying mechanisms. Therefore, research utilizing different types of stimulation for IGF estimation and covering several functional aspects in the same population is required. Moreover, IGFs span a wide range of frequencies (30-100 Hz). This could be partly due to the variability of methods used to extract the measures of IGF. In order to overcome this issue, further studies aiming at the optimization of IGF extraction would be greatly beneficial.
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- Aurimas Mockevičius
- Institute of Biosciences, Life Sciences Centre, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio av. 7, LT-10257 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Institute of Biosciences, Life Sciences Centre, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio av. 7, LT-10257 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Institute of Biosciences, Life Sciences Centre, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio av. 7, LT-10257 Vilnius, Lithuania
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Esmailpour H, Raman R, Vogels R. Inferior temporal cortex leads prefrontal cortex in response to a violation of a learned sequence. Cereb Cortex 2023; 33:3124-3141. [PMID: 35780398 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhac265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2022] [Revised: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 06/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Primates learn statistical regularities that are embedded in visual sequences, a form of statistical learning. Single-unit recordings in macaques showed that inferior temporal (IT) neurons are sensitive to statistical regularities in visual sequences. Here, we asked whether ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC), which is connected to IT, is also sensitive to the transition probabilities in visual sequences and whether the statistical learning signal in IT originates in VLPFC. We recorded simultaneously multiunit activity (MUA) and local field potentials (LFPs) in IT and VLPFC after monkeys were exposed to triplets of images with a fixed presentation order. In both areas, the MUA was stronger to images that violated the learned sequence (deviants) compared to the same images presented in the learned triplets. The high-gamma and beta LFP power showed an enhanced and suppressed response, respectively, to the deviants in both areas. The enhanced response was present also for the image following the deviant, suggesting a sensitivity for temporal adjacent dependencies in IT and VLPFC. The increased response to the deviant occurred later in VLPFC than in IT, suggesting that the deviant response in IT was not inherited from VLPFC. These data support predictive coding theories that propose a feedforward flow of prediction errors.
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- Hamideh Esmailpour
- Laboratorium voor Neuro-en Psychofysiologie, Department of Neurosciences, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
- Leuven Brain Institute, KU Leuven, ON V Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- Laboratorium voor Neuro-en Psychofysiologie, Department of Neurosciences, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
- Leuven Brain Institute, KU Leuven, ON V Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- Laboratorium voor Neuro-en Psychofysiologie, Department of Neurosciences, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
- Leuven Brain Institute, KU Leuven, ON V Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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Williams N, Olson CR. Independent repetition suppression in macaque area V2 and inferotemporal cortex. J Neurophysiol 2022; 128:1421-1434. [PMID: 36350050 PMCID: PMC9678433 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00043.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2022] [Revised: 10/11/2022] [Accepted: 10/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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When a complexly structured natural image is presented twice in succession, first as adapter and then as test, neurons in area TE of macaque inferotemporal cortex exhibit repetition suppression, responding less strongly to the second presentation than to the first. This phenomenon, which has been studied primarily in TE, might plausibly be argued to arise in TE because TE neurons respond selectively to complex images and thus carry information adequate for determining whether an image is or is not a repeat. However, the idea has never been put to a direct test. To resolve this issue, we monitored neuronal responses to sequences of complex natural images under identical conditions in areas V2 and TE. We found that repetition suppression occurs in both areas. Moreover, in each area, suppression takes the form of a dynamic alteration whereby the initial peak of excitation is followed by a trough and then a rebound of firing rate. To assess whether repetition suppression in either area is transmitted from the other area, we analyzed the timing of the phenomenon and its degree of spatial generalization. Suppression occurs at shorter latency in V2 than in TE. Therefore it is not simply fed back from TE. Suppression occurs in TE but not in V2 under conditions in which the test and adapter are presented in different visual field quadrants. Therefore it is not simply fed forward from V2. We conclude that repetition suppression occurs independently in V2 and TE.NEW & NOTEWORTHY When a complexly structured natural image is presented twice in rapid succession, neurons in inferotemporal area TE exhibit repetition suppression, responding less strongly to the second than to the first presentation. We have explored whether this phenomenon is confined to high-order areas where neurons respond selectively to such images and thus carry information relevant to recognizing a repeat. We have found surprisingly that repetition suppression occurs even in low-order visual area V2.
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- Nathaniel Williams
- Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Stauch BJ, Peter A, Ehrlich I, Nolte Z, Fries P. Human visual gamma for color stimuli. eLife 2022; 11:75897. [PMID: 35532123 PMCID: PMC9122493 DOI: 10.7554/elife.75897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2021] [Accepted: 05/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Strong gamma-band oscillations in primate early visual cortex can be induced by homogeneous color surfaces (Peter et al., 2019; Shirhatti and Ray, 2018). Compared to other hues, particularly strong gamma oscillations have been reported for red stimuli. However, precortical color processing and the resultant strength of input to V1 have often not been fully controlled for. Therefore, stronger responses to red might be due to differences in V1 input strength. We presented stimuli that had equal luminance and cone contrast levels in a color coordinate system based on responses of the lateral geniculate nucleus, the main input source for area V1. With these stimuli, we recorded magnetoencephalography in 30 human participants. We found gamma oscillations in early visual cortex which, contrary to previous reports, did not differ between red and green stimuli of equal L-M cone contrast. Notably, blue stimuli with contrast exclusively on the S-cone axis induced very weak gamma responses, as well as smaller event-related fields and poorer change-detection performance. The strength of human color gamma responses for stimuli on the L-M axis could be well explained by L-M cone contrast and did not show a clear red bias when L-M cone contrast was properly equalized.
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience, Frankfurt, Germany
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