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Stimulus vignetting and orientation selectivity in human visual cortex.
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- Testing the generalization of neural representations.NeuroImage · 2023Article
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- Neural tuning instantiates prior expectations in the human visual system.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Representations in human primary visual cortex drift over time.Nature communications · 2023Article
- A modeling framework for determining modulation of neural-level tuning from non-invasive human fMRI data.Communications biology · 2022Article
- What has vision science taught us about functional MRI?NeuroImage · 2022Article
- Natural scene sampling reveals reliable coarse-scale orientation tuning in human V1.Nature communications · 2022Article
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Abstract
Neural selectivity to orientation is one of the simplest and most thoroughly-studied cortical sensory features. Here, we show that a large body of research that purported to measure orientation tuning may have in fact been inadvertently measuring sensitivity to second-order changes in luminance, a phenomenon we term 'vignetting'. Using a computational model of neural responses in primary visual cortex (V1), we demonstrate the impact of vignetting on simulated V1 responses. We then used the model to generate a set of predictions, which we confirmed with functional MRI experiments in human observers. Our results demonstrate that stimulus vignetting can wholly determine the orientation selectivity of responses in visual cortex measured at a macroscopic scale, and suggest a reinterpretation of a well-established literature on orientation processing in visual cortex.
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