Non‐stimulated regions in early visual cortex encode the contents of conscious visual perception
| Autor: | Bianca M. van Kemenade, Gregor Wilbertz, Annalena Müller, Philipp Sterzer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Visual perception Adolescent Consciousness genetic structures media_common.quotation_subject Internal model Sensory system Stimulus (physiology) Feedback Young Adult Perception MVPA medicine Humans predictive coding media_common Visual Cortex Brain Mapping feedback processing medicine.diagnostic_test bistable perception fMRI Human brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Visual cortex medicine.anatomical_structure Pattern Recognition Visual Functional magnetic resonance imaging Psychology 600 Technik Medizin angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit Cognitive psychology |
| ISSN: | 1065-9471 |
| DOI: | 10.17169/refubium-36433 |
| Popis: | Predictions shape our perception. The theory of predictive processing poses that our brains make sense of incoming sensory input by generating predictions, which are sent back from higher to lower levels of the processing hierarchy. These predictions are based on our internal model of the world and enable inferences about the hidden causes of the sensory input data. It has been proposed that conscious perception corresponds to the currently most probable internal model of the world. Accordingly, predictions influencing conscious perception should be fed back from higher to lower levels of the processing hierarchy. Here, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and multivoxel pattern analysis to show that non-stimulated regions of early visual areas contain information about the conscious perception of an ambiguous visual stimulus. These results indicate that early sensory cortices in the human brain receive predictive feedback signals that reflect the current contents of conscious perception. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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