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Cross-Modal Multivariate Pattern Analysis
Published on: November 9, 2011
Two distinct modes of sensory processing observed in monkey primary visual cortex (V1)
H Supèr1, H Spekreijse, V A Lamme
1Graduate School of Neurosciences, Department of Visual System Analysis, AMC, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 12011, 1100 AA Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
Even salient sensory stimuli are sometimes not detected. What goes wrong in the brain in that case? Here we show that a late (> 100-ms) component of the neural activity in the primary visual cortex of the monkey is selectively suppressed when stimuli are not seen. As there is evidence that this activity depends on feedback from extrastriate areas, these findings suggest a specific role for recurrent processing when stimuli are reaching a perceptual level. Further results show that this perceptual level is situated between purely sensory and decision or motor stages of processing.
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