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ELIFE
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
eLIFE SCIENCES PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.82424
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EEG; prediction; motion; neural delays; latency; Human
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When interacting with the dynamic world, the brain compensates for neural delays in processing moving objects by predictively encoding their past trajectories. However, delays still accumulate in later stages of cortical processing. This was demonstrated in a study using high temporal resolution electroencephalographic data, which tracked neural position representations of moving objects at different stages of visual processing.
When interacting with the dynamic world, the brain receives outdated sensory information, due to the time required for neural transmission and processing. In motion perception, the brain may overcome these fundamental delays through predictively encoding the position of moving objects using information from their past trajectories. In the present study, we evaluated this proposition using multivariate analysis of high temporal resolution electroencephalographic data. We tracked neural position representations of moving objects at different stages of visual processing, relative to the real-time position of the object. During early stimulus-evoked activity, position representations of moving objects were activated substantially earlier than the equivalent activity evoked by unpredictable flashes, aligning the earliest representations of moving stimuli with their real-time positions. These findings indicate that the predictability of straight trajectories enables full compensation for the neural delays accumulated early in stimulus processing, but that delays still accumulate across later stages of cortical processing.
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