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Ortiz-Rios M, Agayby B, Balezeau F, Haag M, Rima S, Cadena-Valencia J, Schmid MC. Optogenetic stimulation of the primary visual cortex drives activity in the visual association cortex. CURRENT RESEARCH IN NEUROBIOLOGY 2023; 4:100087. [PMID: 37397814 PMCID: PMC10313868 DOI: 10.1016/j.crneur.2023.100087] [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: 08/26/2022] [Revised: 02/14/2023] [Accepted: 03/22/2023] [Indexed: 07/04/2023] Open
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Developing optogenetic methods for research in non-human primates (NHP) is important for translational neuroscience and for delineating brain function with unprecedented specificity. Here we assess, in macaque monkeys, the selectivity by which optogenetic stimulation of the primary visual cortex (V1) drives the local laminar and widespread cortical connectivity related to visual perception. Towards this end, we transfected neurons with light-sensitive channelrhodopsin in dorsal V1. fMRI revealed that optogenetic stimulation of V1 using blue light at 40 Hz increased functional activity in the visual association cortex, including areas V2/V3, V4, motion-sensitive area MT and frontal eye fields, although nonspecific heating and eye movement contributions to this effect could not be ruled out. Neurophysiology and immunohistochemistry analyses confirmed optogenetic modulation of spiking activity and opsin expression with the strongest expression in layer 4-B in V1. Stimulating this pathway during a perceptual decision task effectively elicited a phosphene percept in the receptive field of the stimulated neurons in one monkey. Taken together, our findings demonstrate the great potential of optogenetic methods to drive the large-scale cortical circuits of the primate brain with high functional and spatial specificity.
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- Michael Ortiz-Rios
- Biosciences Institute, Henry Wellcome Building, Medical School, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
- Functional Imaging Laboratory, Deutsches Primatenzentrum (DPZ), Leibniz-Institut für Primatenforschung, Göttingen, Germany
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- Biosciences Institute, Henry Wellcome Building, Medical School, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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- Biosciences Institute, Henry Wellcome Building, Medical School, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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- Biosciences Institute, Henry Wellcome Building, Medical School, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
- Faculty of Science and Medicine, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 5, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Biosciences Institute, Henry Wellcome Building, Medical School, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
- Faculty of Science and Medicine, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 5, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Science and Medicine, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 5, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Biosciences Institute, Henry Wellcome Building, Medical School, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
- Faculty of Science and Medicine, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 5, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland
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Oz R, Edelman-Klapper H, Nivinsky-Margalit S, Slovin H. Microstimulation in the primary visual cortex: activity patterns and their relation to visual responses and evoked saccades. Cereb Cortex 2022; 33:5192-5209. [PMID: 36300613 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhac409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2022] [Revised: 09/22/2022] [Accepted: 09/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) in the primary visual cortex (V1) can generate the visual perception of a small point of light, termed phosphene, and evoke saccades directed to the receptive field of the stimulated neurons. Although ICMS is widely used, a direct measurement of the spatio-temporal patterns of neural activity evoked by ICMS and their relation to the neural responses evoked by visual stimuli or how they relate to ICMS-evoked saccades are still missing. To investigate this, we combined ICMS with voltage-sensitive dye imaging in V1 of behaving monkeys and measured neural activity at a high spatial (meso-scale) and temporal resolution. We then compared the population response evoked by small visual stimuli to those evoked by microstimulation. Both stimulation types evoked population activity that spread over few millimeters in V1 and propagated to extrastriate areas. However, the population responses evoked by ICMS have shown faster dynamics for the activation transients and the horizontal propagation of activity revealed a wave-like propagation. Finally, neural activity in the ICMS condition was higher for trials with evoked saccades as compared with trials without saccades. Our results uncover the spatio-temporal patterns evoked by ICMS and their relation to visual processing and saccade generation.
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- Roy Oz
- The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University , Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
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- The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University , Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
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- The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University , Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
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- The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University , Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
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Xu R, Bichot NP, Takahashi A, Desimone R. The cortical connectome of primate lateral prefrontal cortex. Neuron 2022; 110:312-327.e7. [PMID: 34739817 PMCID: PMC8776613 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.10.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2021] [Revised: 09/09/2021] [Accepted: 10/11/2021] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) of primates plays an important role in executive control, but how it interacts with the rest of the cortex remains unclear. To address this, we densely mapped the cortical connectome of LPFC, using electrical microstimulation combined with functional MRI (EM-fMRI). We found isomorphic mappings between LPFC and five major processing domains composing most of the cerebral cortex except early sensory and motor areas. An LPFC grid of ∼200 stimulation sites topographically mapped to separate grids of activation sites in the five domains, coarsely resembling how the visual cortex maps the retina. The temporal and parietal maps largely overlapped in LPFC, suggesting topographically organized convergence of the ventral and dorsal streams, and the other maps overlapped at least partially. Thus, the LPFC contains overlapping, millimeter-scale maps that mirror the organization of major cortical processing domains, supporting LPFC's role in coordinating activity within and across these domains.
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- Rui Xu
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Pérez-Cervera L, Caramés JM, Fernández-Mollá LM, Moreno A, Fernández B, Pérez-Montoyo E, Moratal D, Canals S, Pacheco-Torres J. Mapping Functional Connectivity in the Rodent Brain Using Electric-Stimulation fMRI. Methods Mol Biol 2018; 1718:117-134. [PMID: 29341006 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7531-0_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Since its discovery in the early 90s, BOLD signal-based functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) has become a fundamental technique for the study of brain activity in basic and clinical research. Functional MRI signals provide an indirect but robust and quantitative readout of brain activity through the tight coupling between cerebral blood flow and neuronal activation, the so-called neurovascular coupling. Combined with experimental techniques only available in animal models, such as intracerebral micro-stimulation, optogenetics or pharmacogenetics, provides a powerful framework to investigate the impact of specific circuit manipulations on overall brain dynamics. The purpose of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive protocol to measure brain activity using fMRI with intracerebral electric micro-stimulation in murine models. Preclinical research (especially in rodents) opens the door to very sophisticated and informative experiments, but at the same time imposes important constrains (i.e., anesthetics, translatability), some of which will be addressed here.
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- Laura Pérez-Cervera
- Instituto de Neurociencias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Sant Joan d'Alacant, 03550, Spain
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- Instituto de Neurociencias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Sant Joan d'Alacant, 03550, Spain
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- Instituto de Neurociencias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Sant Joan d'Alacant, 03550, Spain
- Center for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, 46022, Spain
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- Instituto de Neurociencias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Sant Joan d'Alacant, 03550, Spain
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- Instituto de Neurociencias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Sant Joan d'Alacant, 03550, Spain
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- Center for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, 46022, Spain
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- Instituto de Neurociencias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Sant Joan d'Alacant, 03550, Spain
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- Instituto de Neurociencias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Sant Joan d'Alacant, 03550, Spain.
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Klink PC, Dagnino B, Gariel-Mathis MA, Roelfsema PR. Distinct Feedforward and Feedback Effects of Microstimulation in Visual Cortex Reveal Neural Mechanisms of Texture Segregation. Neuron 2017. [PMID: 28625487 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.05.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The visual cortex is hierarchically organized, with low-level areas coding for simple features and higher areas for complex ones. Feedforward and feedback connections propagate information between areas in opposite directions, but their functional roles are only partially understood. We used electrical microstimulation to perturb the propagation of neuronal activity between areas V1 and V4 in monkeys performing a texture-segregation task. In both areas, microstimulation locally caused a brief phase of excitation, followed by inhibition. Both these effects propagated faithfully in the feedforward direction from V1 to V4. Stimulation of V4, however, caused little V1 excitation, but it did yield a delayed suppression during the late phase of visually driven activity. This suppression was pronounced for the V1 figure representation and weaker for background representations. Our results reveal functional differences between feedforward and feedback processing in texture segregation and suggest a specific modulating role for feedback connections in perceptual organization.
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- P Christiaan Klink
- Department of Vision and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Neuromodulation and Behaviour, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1100 DD Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU University, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Vision and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Vision and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Vision and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1100 DD Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU University, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Ma Z, Cao P, Sun P, Zhao L, Li L, Tong S, Lu Y, Yan Y, Chen Y, Chai X. Inverted optical intrinsic response accompanied by decreased cerebral blood flow are related to both neuronal inhibition and excitation. Sci Rep 2016; 6:21627. [PMID: 26860040 PMCID: PMC4748280 DOI: 10.1038/srep21627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2015] [Accepted: 01/27/2016] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Negative hemodynamic response has been widely reported in blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging studies, however its origin is still controversial. Optical intrinsic signal (OIS) imaging can be used to study brain activity by simultaneously recording hemodynamic signals at different wavelengths with high spatial resolution. In this study, we found transcorneal electrical stimulation (TcES) could elicit both positive OIS response (POR) and negative OIS response (NOR) in cats’ visual cortex. We then investigated the property of this negative response to TcES and its relationship with cerebral blood flow (CBF) and neuronal activity. Results from laser speckle contrast imaging showed decreased CBF in the NOR region while increased CBF in the POR region. Both planar and laminar electrophysiological recordings in the middle (500–700 μm) cortical layers demonstrated that decreased and increased neuronal activities were coexisted in the NOR region. Furthermore, decreased neuronal activity was also detected in the deep cortical layers in the NOR region. This work provides evidence that the negative OIS together with the decreased CBF should be explained by mechanisms of both neuronal inhibition and excitation within middle cortical layers. Our results would be important for interpreting neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the negative BOLD signals.
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- Zengguang Ma
- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Institute of Neuroscience and State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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Cicmil N, Cumming BG, Parker AJ, Krug K. Reward modulates the effect of visual cortical microstimulation on perceptual decisions. eLife 2015; 4:e07832. [PMID: 26402458 PMCID: PMC4616243 DOI: 10.7554/elife.07832] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2015] [Accepted: 09/23/2015] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Effective perceptual decisions rely upon combining sensory information with knowledge of the rewards available for different choices. However, it is not known where reward signals interact with the multiple stages of the perceptual decision-making pathway and by what mechanisms this may occur. We combined electrical microstimulation of functionally specific groups of neurons in visual area V5/MT with performance-contingent reward manipulation, while monkeys performed a visual discrimination task. Microstimulation was less effective in shifting perceptual choices towards the stimulus preferences of the stimulated neurons when available reward was larger. Psychophysical control experiments showed this result was not explained by a selective change in response strategy on microstimulated trials. A bounded accumulation decision model, applied to analyse behavioural performance, revealed that the interaction of expected reward with microstimulation can be explained if expected reward modulates a sensory representation stage of perceptual decision-making, in addition to the better-known effects at the integration stage. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.07832.001 Identifying how an object is moving in three-dimensional (3D) space depends upon a brain region known as V5/MT. The neurons that make up area V5/MT form groups that each have a ‘preference’ for a particular direction of movement and a particular 3D depth. If a group of neurons detects its preferred direction of movement and 3D depth, it will become highly active. The brain can assess which groups of neurons are active, in a process known as integration. This information can then be used to work out the object's movement in space. The process of integration can be influenced by whether a rewarding outcome is expected to result from identifying the 3D movement correctly. This allows the brain to increase its likelihood of success in situations where a large reward is on offer. Until now, it was thought that the activity in area V5/MT, which takes place before integration, was not affected by the likelihood of receiving a reward. As well as being ‘naturally’ stimulated by moving objects, the V5/MT neurons can also be ‘artificially’ activated by a technique called microstimulation, which uses a tiny electrode to electrically stimulate groups of neurons. Microstimulation can bias visual perception towards the movement and 3D depth ‘preference’ of the artificially activated neurons. If the V5/MT neurons do receive information about potential rewards from other areas of the brain, we would expect rewards to affect naturally and artificially stimulated neural activity in different ways. On the other hand, if the V5/MT neurons do not receive any information about reward, then it will not matter whether their activity is natural or artificial; the signal that they produce will be the same. Cicmil et al. gave two monkeys a task in which they could receive rewards for correctly identifying a three-dimensional cylinder's direction of rotation, and applied microstimulation to specific groups of V5/MT neurons on some of the trials. When a larger reward was available, microstimulation was less able to bias the monkeys' choices about the rotation direction of the 3D cylinders. Overall, Cicmil et al.'s results suggest that the V5/MT neurons are able to incorporate information about reward, before integration occurs. The next step will be to record the activity of area V5/MT to investigate exactly how this happens. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.07832.002
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- Nela Cicmil
- Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Lab of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, United States
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Schwiedrzik CM, Zarco W, Everling S, Freiwald WA. Face Patch Resting State Networks Link Face Processing to Social Cognition. PLoS Biol 2015; 13:e1002245. [PMID: 26348613 PMCID: PMC4562659 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2015] [Accepted: 08/05/2015] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Faces transmit a wealth of social information. How this information is exchanged between face-processing centers and brain areas supporting social cognition remains largely unclear. Here we identify these routes using resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging in macaque monkeys. We find that face areas functionally connect to specific regions within frontal, temporal, and parietal cortices, as well as subcortical structures supporting emotive, mnemonic, and cognitive functions. This establishes the existence of an extended face-recognition system in the macaque. Furthermore, the face patch resting state networks and the default mode network in monkeys show a pattern of overlap akin to that between the social brain and the default mode network in humans: this overlap specifically includes the posterior superior temporal sulcus, medial parietal, and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, areas supporting high-level social cognition in humans. Together, these results reveal the embedding of face areas into larger brain networks and suggest that the resting state networks of the face patch system offer a new, easily accessible venue into the functional organization of the social brain and into the evolution of possibly uniquely human social skills. An analysis of the functional connectivity of regions of the monkey brain involved in face recognition suggests substrates for the cognitive, mnemonic, emotive, and motoric impact of faces, revealing striking similarities to the human brain, and implying a deep evolutionary heritage of even the most high-level sociocognitive functions. Primates have evolved to transmit social information through their faces. Where and how the brain processes facial information received by the eyes we now understand quite well. Yet we do not know how this information is made available to other brain areas so that a face can evoke an emotion, activate the memory of a person, or draw attention. Here, to identify brain regions interacting with face areas, we performed whole-brain imaging in macaque monkeys, whose face-processing system we know best. We find that the core face-processing areas are connected to several other brain areas supporting socially, emotionally, and cognitively relevant functions. Together, they form an extended face-processing network, similar to what has been proposed for humans. This extended face-processing network intersects with a second large-scale network, the so-called “default mode network”, in a pattern stunningly similar to that in the human brain. This intersection identifies selectively those brain regions that implement the most high-level forms of social cognition, such as understanding others’ thoughts and feelings. Thus, the results of this novel approach to understanding the functional organization of the social brain point to a deep evolutionary heritage of human abilities for social cognition.
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- Caspar M. Schwiedrzik
- Laboratory of Neural Systems, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America
- * E-mail: (CMS); (WAF)
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- Laboratory of Neural Systems, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Laboratory of Neural Systems, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America
- * E-mail: (CMS); (WAF)
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In 1998 several groups reported the feasibility of fMRI experiments in monkeys, with the goal to bridge the gap between invasive nonhuman primate studies and human functional imaging. These studies yielded critical insights in the neuronal underpinnings of the BOLD signal. Furthermore, the technology has been successful in guiding electrophysiological recordings and identifying focal perturbation targets. Finally, invaluable information was obtained concerning human brain evolution. We here provide a comprehensive overview of awake monkey fMRI studies mainly confined to the visual system. We review the latest insights about the topographic organization of monkey visual cortex and discuss the spatial relationships between retinotopy and category- and feature-selective clusters. We briefly discuss the functional layout of parietal and frontal cortex and continue with a summary of some fascinating functional and effective connectivity studies. Finally, we review recent comparative fMRI experiments and speculate about the future of nonhuman primate imaging.
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- Wim Vanduffel
- Laboratory for Neuro- and Psychophysiology, KU Leuven Medical School, Campus Gasthuisberg, Leuven, 3000, Belgium; Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02129, USA; A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.
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- Laboratory for Neuro- and Psychophysiology, KU Leuven Medical School, Campus Gasthuisberg, Leuven, 3000, Belgium
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- Laboratory for Neuro- and Psychophysiology, KU Leuven Medical School, Campus Gasthuisberg, Leuven, 3000, Belgium; Department of Neuroscience, University of Parma, Parma, 43125, Italy
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Electrical stimulation of the human homolog of the medial superior temporal area induces visual motion blindness. J Neurosci 2014; 33:18288-97. [PMID: 24227738 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0556-13.2013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Despite tremendous advances in neuroscience research, it is still unclear how neuronal representations of sensory information give rise to the contents of our perception. One of the first and also the most compelling pieces of evidence for direct involvement of cortical signals in perception comes from electrical stimulation experiments addressing the middle temporal (MT) area and the medial superior temporal (MST) area: two neighboring extrastriate cortical areas of the monkey brain housing direction-sensitive neurons. Here we have combined fMRI with electrical stimulation in a patient undergoing awake brain surgery, to separately probe the functional significance of the human homologs, i.e., area hMT and hMST, on motion perception. Both the stimulation of hMT and hMST made it impossible for the patient to perceive the global visual motion of moving random dot patterns. Although visual motion blindness was predominantly observed in the contralateral visual field, stimulation of hMST also affected the ipsilateral hemifield. These results suggest that early visual cortex up to the stage of MT is not sufficient for the perception of global visual motion. Rather, visual motion information must be mediated to higher-tier cortical areas, including hMST, to gain access to conscious perception.
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Matsui T, Koyano KW, Tamura K, Osada T, Adachi Y, Miyamoto K, Chikazoe J, Kamigaki T, Miyashita Y. FMRI activity in the macaque cerebellum evoked by intracortical microstimulation of the primary somatosensory cortex: evidence for polysynaptic propagation. PLoS One 2012; 7:e47515. [PMID: 23118875 PMCID: PMC3485272 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2012] [Accepted: 09/12/2012] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Simultaneous electrical microstimulation (EM) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a useful tool for probing connectivity across brain areas in vivo. However, it is not clear whether intracortical EM can evoke blood-oxygenation-level-dependent (BOLD) signal in areas connected polysynaptically to the stimulated site. To test for the presence of the BOLD activity evoked by polysynaptic propagation of the EM signal, we conducted simultaneous fMRI and EM in the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) of macaque monkeys. We in fact observed BOLD activations in the contralateral cerebellum which is connected to the stimulation site (i.e. S1) only through polysynaptic pathways. Furthermore, the magnitude of cerebellar activations was dependent on the current amplitude of the EM, confirming the EM is the cause of the cerebellar activations. These results suggest the importance of considering polysynaptic signal propagation, particularly via pathways including subcortical structures, for correctly interpreting ‘functional connectivity’ as assessed by simultaneous EM and fMRI.
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- Teppei Matsui
- Department of Physiology, The University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo School of Science, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, The University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, The University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, The University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, The University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, The University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, The University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, The University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, The University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo School of Science, Tokyo, Japan
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Unravelling cerebellar pathways with high temporal precision targeting motor and extensive sensory and parietal networks. Nat Commun 2012; 3:924. [PMID: 22735452 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2011] [Accepted: 05/17/2012] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Increasing evidence has implicated the cerebellum in providing forward models of motor plants predicting the sensory consequences of actions. Assuming that cerebellar input to the cerebral cortex contributes to the cerebro-cortical processing by adding forward model signals, we would expect to find projections emphasising motor and sensory cortical areas. However, this expectation is only partially met by studies of cerebello-cerebral connections. Here we show that by electrically stimulating the cerebellar output and imaging responses with functional magnetic resonance imaging, evoked blood oxygen level-dependant activity is observed not only in the classical cerebellar projection target, the primary motor cortex, but also in a number of additional areas in insular, parietal and occipital cortex, including sensory cortical representations. Further probing of the responses reveals a projection system that has been optimized to mediate fast and temporarily precise information. In conclusion, both the topography of the stimulation effects and its emphasis on temporal precision are in full accordance with the concept of cerebellar forward model information modulating cerebro-cortical processing.
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