ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2014
Cortical brightness adaptation when darkness and brightness produce different dynamical states in the visual cortex.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
32 citing papers in PubMed.
- Photosensitive response mouse model: A potential tool for studying mechanisms of photosensitive epilepsy and initial screening of anti-epileptic drugs.The Journal of physiology · 2026Article
- Cortex-specific inversion of visual responses during sleep.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Cortex-specific inversion of visual responses during sleep.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Article
- The gamma rhythm as a guardian of brain health.eLife · 2024Review
- Article
- Article
- High-Resolution Laminar Identification in Macaque Primary Visual Cortex Using Neuropixels Probes.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Predicting Single Neuron Responses of the Primary Visual Cortex with Deep Learning Model.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Contrast Sensitivity of ON and OFF Human Retinal Pathways in Myopia.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Dynamic Recruitment of the Feedforward and Recurrent Mechanism for Black-White Asymmetry in the Primary Visual Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Differences in visual stimulation between reading and walking and implications for myopia development.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Enhancement of the neural response during 40 Hz auditory entrainment in closed-eye state in human prefrontal region.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2023Article
- Model-Based Approach Shows ON Pathway Afferents Elicit a Transient Decrease of V1 Responses.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Luminance Contrast Shifts Dominance Balance between ON and OFF Pathways in Human Vision.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Cortical mechanisms of visual brightness.Cell reports · 2022Article
- Gamma rhythms in the visual cortex: functions and mechanisms.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2022Review
- Coding strategy for surface luminance switches in the primary visual cortex of the awake monkey.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Multiple gamma rhythms carry distinct spatial frequency information in primary visual cortex.PLoS biology · 2021Article
- From Receptive to Perceptive Fields: Size-Dependent Asymmetries in Both Negative Afterimages and Subcortical On and Off Post-Stimulus Responses.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Darkness and brightness are very different perceptually. To understand the neural basis for the visual difference, we studied the dynamical states of populations of neurons in macaque primary visual cortex when a spatially uniform area (8° × 8°) of the visual field alternated between black and white. Darkness evoked sustained nerve-impulse spiking in primary visual cortex neurons, but bright stimuli evoked only a transient response. A peak in the local field potential (LFP) γ band (30-80 Hz) occurred during darkness; white-induced LFP fluctuations were of lower amplitude, peaking at 25 Hz. However, the sustained response to white in the evoked LFP was larger than for black. Together with the results on spiking, the LFP results imply that, throughout the stimulus period, bright fields evoked strong net sustained inhibition. Such cortical brightness adaptation can explain many perceptual phenomena: interocular speeding up of dark adaptation, tonic interocular suppression, and interocular masking.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.