Assessing functional reorganization in visual cortex with simulated retinal lesions
| Autor: | Samuel J. D. Lawrence, Andre Gouws, Holly D. H. Brown, Richard Gale, Heidi A. Baseler, Richard J. W. Vernon, Lorraine Gill, Antony B. Morland, Gemma Donnelly |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Lesion projection zone
Histology genetic structures Adaptation (eye) Retina Feedback Visual processing Lesion chemistry.chemical_compound medicine Humans Functional reorganization Visual cortex Scotoma Macular degeneration General Neuroscience Blind spot fMRI Reproducibility of Results Retinal medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure chemistry Visual Perception Original Article Anatomy medicine.symptom Psychology Neuroscience |
| Zdroj: | Brain Structure & Function |
| ISSN: | 1863-2661 1863-2653 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00429-021-02366-w |
| Popis: | Macular degeneration (MD) causes central vision loss, removing input to corresponding representations in the primary visual cortex. There is disagreement concerning whether the cortical regions deprived of input can remain responsive, and the source of reported cortical responses is still debated. To simulate MD in controls, normally sighted participants viewed a bright central disk to adapt the retina, creating a transient ‘retinal lesion’ during a functional MRI experiment. Participants viewed blocks of faces, scrambled faces and uniform grey stimuli, either passively or whilst performing a one-back task. To assess the impact of the simulated lesion, participants repeated the paradigm using a more conventional mean luminance simulated scotoma without adaptation. Our results suggest our attempt to create a more realistic simulation of a lesion did not impact on responses in the representation of the simulated lesion. While most participants showed no evidence of stimulus-driven activation within the lesion representation, a few individuals (22%) exhibited responses similar to a participant with juvenile MD who completed the same paradigm (without adaptation). Reliability analysis showed that responses in the representation of the lesion were generally consistent irrespective of whether positive or negative. We provide some evidence that peripheral visual stimulation can also produce responses in central representations in controls while performing a task. This suggests that the ‘signature of reorganization of visual processing’, is not found solely in patients with retinal lesions, consistent with the idea that activity may be driven by unmasked top–down feedback. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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