期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 29, 期 34, 页码 10683-10694出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0673-09.2009
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资金
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postgraduate Scholarship
- Human Frontier Science Program Organization
- Geneeskundige Stichting Koningin Elisabeth
- Inter-University Attraction Pole 5/04
- Excellence Financing/05/014
- Geconcerteerde Onderzoeksacties [2005/18]
- Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek-Vlaanderen [G.0.622.08]
- European Union [FP7/2007-2013, F2-2008-200728]
- National Institutes of Health [R01-EB000790]
- National Science Foundation [BCS-0745436]
- National Center for Research Resources [P41RR14075]
- MIND Institute
Spatial attention influences representations in visual cortical areas as well as perception. Some models predict a contrast gain, whereas others a response or activity gain when attention is directed to a contrast-varying stimulus. Recent evidence has indicated that microstimulating the frontal eye field (FEF) can produce modulations of cortical area 4 neuronal firing rates that resemble spatial attention-like effects, and we have shown similar modulations of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) activity throughout the visual system. Here, we used fMRI in awake, fixating monkeys to first measure the response in 12 visual cortical areas to stimuli of varying luminance contrast. Next, we simultaneously microstimulated subregions of the FEF with movement fields that overlapped the stimulus locations and measured how microstimulation modulated these contrast response functions (CRFs) throughout visual cortex. In general, we found evidence for a nonproportional scaling of the CRF under these conditions, resembling a contrast gain effect. Representations of low-contrast stimuli were enhanced by stimulation of the FEF below the threshold needed to evoke saccades, whereas high-contrast stimuli were unaffected or in some areas even suppressed. Furthermore, we measured a characteristic spatial pattern of enhancement and suppression across the cortical surface, from which we propose a simple schematic of this contrast-dependent fMRI response.
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