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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 116, 期 32, 页码 16056-16061出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1817317116
关键词
prestimulus; connectivity; MEG; visual object perception; oscillations
资金
- FWF Austrian Science Fund
- Imaging the Mind: Connectivity and Higher Cognitive Function grant [Imaging the Mind: Connectivity and Higher Cognitive Function grant W 1233-G17]
- European Research Council grant WIN2CON [ERC StG 283404]
- FWF-Lise Meitner fellowship [M02496]
Ongoing fluctuations in neural excitability and in networkwide activity patterns before stimulus onset have been proposed to underlie variability in near-threshold stimulus detection paradigms-that is, whether or not an object is perceived. Here, we investigated the impact of prestimulus neural fluctuations on the content of perception-that is, whether one or another object is perceived. We recorded neural activity with magnetoencephalography (MEG) before and while participants briefly viewed an ambiguous image, the Rubin face/vase illusion, and required them to report their perceived interpretation in each trial. Using multivariate pattern analysis, we showed robust decoding of the perceptual report during the poststimulus period. Applying source localization to the classifier weights suggested early recruitment of primary visual cortex (V1) and similar to 160-ms recruitment of the category-sensitive fusiform face area (FFA). These poststimulus effects were accompanied by stronger oscillatory power in the gamma frequency band for face vs. vase reports. In prestimulus intervals, we found no differences in oscillatory power between face vs. vase reports in V1 or in FFA, indicating similar levels of neural excitability. Despite this, we found stronger connectivity between V1 and FFA before face reports for low-frequency oscillations. Specifically, the strength of prestimulus feedback connectivity (i.e., Granger causality) from FFA to V1 predicted not only the category of the upcoming percept but also the strength of poststimulus neural activity associated with the percept. Our work shows that prestimulus network states can help shape future processing in category-sensitive brain regions and in this way bias the content of visual experiences.
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