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Zhang H, Yoshida S, Li Z. Brain-like illusion produced by Skye's Oblique Grating in deep neural networks. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0299083. [PMID: 38394261 PMCID: PMC10889903 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0299083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2023] [Accepted: 02/06/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024] Open
Abstract
The analogy between the brain and deep neural networks (DNNs) has sparked interest in neuroscience. Although DNNs have limitations, they remain valuable for modeling specific brain characteristics. This study used Skye's Oblique Grating illusion to assess DNNs' relevance to brain neural networks. We collected data on human perceptual responses to a series of visual illusions. This data was then used to assess how DNN responses to these illusions paralleled or differed from human behavior. We performed two analyses:(1) We trained DNNs to perform horizontal vs. non-horizontal classification on images with bars tilted different degrees (non-illusory images) and tested them on images with horizontal bars with different illusory strengths measured by human behavior (illusory images), finding that DNNs showed human-like illusions; (2) We performed representational similarity analysis to assess whether illusory representation existed in different layers within DNNs, finding that DNNs showed illusion-like responses to illusory images. The representational similarity between real tilted images and illusory images was calculated, which showed the highest values in the early layers and decreased layer-by-layer. Our findings suggest that DNNs could serve as potential models for explaining the mechanism of visual illusions in human brain, particularly those that may originate in early visual areas like the primary visual cortex (V1). While promising, further research is necessary to understand the nuanced differences between DNNs and human visual pathways.
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- Hongtao Zhang
- Graduate School of Engineering, Kochi University of Technology, Kami, Kochi, Japan
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- School of Information, Kochi University of Technology, Kami, Kochi, Japan
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- Guangdong Laboratory of Machine Perception and Intelligent Computing, Shenzhen MSU-BIT University, Shenzhen, China
- Department of Engineering, Shenzhen MSU-BIT University, Shenzhen, China
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Ryu J, Lee SH. Bounded contribution of human early visual cortex to the topographic anisotropy in spatial extent perception. Commun Biol 2024; 7:178. [PMID: 38351283 PMCID: PMC10864322 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-05846-x] [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: 07/25/2023] [Accepted: 01/23/2024] [Indexed: 02/16/2024] Open
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To interact successfully with objects, it is crucial to accurately perceive their spatial extent, an enclosed region they occupy in space. Although the topographic representation of space in the early visual cortex (EVC) has been favored as a neural correlate of spatial extent perception, its exact nature and contribution to perception remain unclear. Here, we inspect the topographic representations of human individuals' EVC and perception in terms of how much their anisotropy is influenced by the orientation (co-axiality) and radial position (radiality) of stimuli. We report that while the anisotropy is influenced by both factors, its direction is primarily determined by radiality in EVC but by co-axiality in perception. Despite this mismatch, the individual differences in both radial and co-axial anisotropy are substantially shared between EVC and perception. Our findings suggest that spatial extent perception builds on EVC's spatial representation but requires an additional mechanism to transform its topographic bias.
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- Juhyoung Ryu
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, Republic of Korea.
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Cheng FL, Horikawa T, Majima K, Tanaka M, Abdelhack M, Aoki SC, Hirano J, Kamitani Y. Reconstructing visual illusory experiences from human brain activity. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2023; 9:eadj3906. [PMID: 37967184 PMCID: PMC10651116 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adj3906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2023] [Accepted: 10/13/2023] [Indexed: 11/17/2023]
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Visual illusions provide valuable insights into the brain's interpretation of the world given sensory inputs. However, the precise manner in which brain activity translates into illusory experiences remains largely unknown. Here, we leverage a brain decoding technique combined with deep neural network (DNN) representations to reconstruct illusory percepts as images from brain activity. The reconstruction model was trained on natural images to establish a link between brain activity and perceptual features and then tested on two types of illusions: illusory lines and neon color spreading. Reconstructions revealed lines and colors consistent with illusory experiences, which varied across the source visual cortical areas. This framework offers a way to materialize subjective experiences, shedding light on the brain's internal representations of the world.
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- Fan L. Cheng
- Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
- ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Soraku, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan
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- ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Soraku, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan
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- Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
- ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Soraku, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan
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Sánchez-Fuenzalida N, van Gaal S, Fleming SM, Haaf JM, Fahrenfort JJ. Predictions and rewards affect decision-making but not subjective experience. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2220749120. [PMID: 37878723 PMCID: PMC10622870 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2220749120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2022] [Accepted: 09/12/2023] [Indexed: 10/27/2023] Open
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To survive, organisms constantly make decisions to avoid danger and maximize rewards in information-rich environments. As a result, decisions about sensory input are not only driven by sensory information but also by other factors, such as the expected rewards of a decision (known as the payoff matrix) or by information about temporal regularities in the environment (known as cognitive priors or predictions). However, it is unknown to what extent these different types of information affect subjective experience or whether they merely result in nonperceptual response criterion shifts. To investigate this question, we used three carefully matched manipulations that typically result in behavioral shifts in decision criteria: a visual illusion (Müller-Lyer condition), a punishment scheme (payoff condition), and a change in the ratio of relevant stimuli (base rate condition). To gauge shifts in subjective experience, we introduce a task in which participants not only make decisions about what they have just seen but are also asked to reproduce their experience of a target stimulus. Using Bayesian ordinal modeling, we show that each of these three manipulations affects the decision criterion as intended but that the visual illusion uniquely affects sensory experience as measured by reproduction. In a series of follow-up experiments, we use computational modeling to show that although the visual illusion results in a distinct drift-diffusion (DDM) parameter profile relative to nonsensory manipulations, reliance on DDM parameter estimates alone is not sufficient to ascertain whether a given manipulation is perceptual or nonperceptual.
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- Nicolás Sánchez-Fuenzalida
- Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam1001NK, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Brain & Cognition, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam1001NK, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam1001NK, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Brain & Cognition, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam1001NK, The Netherlands
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, University College London, LondonWC1N 3AR, United Kingdom
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, LondonWC1H 0AP, United Kingdom
- Max Planck Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, University College London, LondonWC1B 5EH, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam1001NK, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam1001NK, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Brain & Cognition, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam1001NK, The Netherlands
- Department of Applied and Experimental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam1081HV, The Netherlands
- Institute for Brain and Behavior Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam1081HV, The Netherlands
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Huang Z, Urale PWB, Morgan CA, Rees G, Schwarzkopf DS. The role of awareness in shaping responses in human visual cortex. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2023; 10:230380. [PMID: 37564060 PMCID: PMC10410229 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.230380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2023] [Accepted: 07/20/2023] [Indexed: 08/12/2023]
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The visual cortex contains information about stimuli even when they are not consciously perceived. However, it remains unknown whether the visual system integrates local features into global objects without awareness. Here, we tested this by measuring brain activity in human observers viewing fragmented shapes that were either visible or rendered invisible by fast counterphase flicker. We then projected measured neural responses to these stimuli back into visual space. Visible stimuli caused robust responses reflecting the positions of their component fragments. Their neural representations also strongly resembled one another regardless of local features. By contrast, representations of invisible stimuli differed from one another and, crucially, also from visible stimuli. Our results demonstrate that even the early visual cortex encodes unconscious visual information differently from conscious information, presumably by only encoding local features. This could explain previous conflicting behavioural findings on unconscious visual processing.
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- Zien Huang
- School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- School of Psychology and Centre for Brain Research, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- School of Psychology and Centre for Brain Research, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- School of Psychology and Centre for Brain Research, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Centre for Advance Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Auckland UniServices Limited, Auckland, New Zealand
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- UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK
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- School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, UK
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