Abstract
AbstractHuman visual surface perception has neural correlates in early visual cortex, but the extent to which feedback contributes to this activity is not well known. Feedback projections preferentially enter superficial and deep anatomical layers, while avoiding the middle layer, which provides a hypothesis for the cortical depth distribution of fMRI activity related to feedback in early visual cortex. Here, we presented human participants uniform surfaces on a dark, textured background. The grey surface in the left hemifield was either perceived as static or moving based on a manipulation in the right hemifield. Physically, the surface was identical in the left visual hemifield, so any difference in percept likely was related to feedback. Using ultra-high field fMRI, we report the first evidence for a depth distribution of activation in line with feedback during the (illusory) perception of surface motion. Our results fit with a signal re-entering in superficial depths of V1, followed by a feedforward sweep of the re-entered information through V2 and V3, as suggested by activity centred in the middle-depth levels of the latter areas. This positive modulation of the BOLD signal due to illusory surface motion was on top of a strong negative BOLD response in the cortical representation of the surface stimuli, which depended on the presence of texture in the background. Hence, the magnitude and sign of the BOLD response to the surface strongly depended on background properties, and was additionally modulated by the presence or absence of illusory motion perception in a manner compatible with feedback. In summary, the present study demonstrates the potential of depth resolved fMRI in tackling biomechanical questions on perception that so far were only within reach of invasive animal experimentation.
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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