Alpha oscillations support the efficiency of guided visual search by inhibiting both target and distractor features in early visual cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.03.551520v1 "selective attention through inhibition"; #neuroscience #V1
#Multimodal deep learning model unveils behavioral dynamics of #V1 activity in freely moving mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.30.542912v1 Might plead for supplemental gesturing of soundscape content during visual mental imagery in visual-to-auditory sensory substitution.
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Perceptual expectations and false percepts generate stimulus-specific activity in distinct layers of the early #visual #cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.13.488155v2 #7T layer-specific #fMRI of #V1 and #V2. #neuroscience
"results reveal a feedforward mechanism underlying false percepts, reflected by spontaneous stimulus-like activity in the input layers of the visual cortex, independent of top-down perceptual expectations."
#neuroscience #v2 #V1 #fmri #7t #cortex #visual
One in four people fail to perceive phosphenes during early visual cortex transcranial magnetic stimulation https://www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S1935-861X(22)00260-1/fulltext #phosphenes #V1 #TMS