Border-ownership tuning determines the connectivity between V4 and V1 in the macaque visual system

Danique Jeurissen1,2,3, Anne F van Ham1, Amparo Gilhuis1

  • 1Department of Vision & Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Meibergdreef 47, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Nature Communications
|October 22, 2024
PubMed
Summary

Higher visual areas send feedback to primary visual cortex (V1) to enhance figure-background modulation (FBM). Border-ownership (BO) selective cells in V4 provide this feedback, with positive feedback towards preferred figures and negative feedback away.

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