ReviewAnnual review of vision science2020
Role of Feedback Connections in Central Visual Processing.
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- Projection-specific Routing of Odor Information in the Olfactory Cortex.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Nonlinear feedback modulation contributes to the optimization of flexible decision-making.eLife · 2025Article
- Reciprocal interaction between cortical SST and PV interneurons in top-down regulation of retinothalamic refinement.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Dual parallel stream-specific and generalized effects of corticogeniculate feedback on LGN neurons in primate and carnivore.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- Modulatory feedback determines attentional object segmentation in a model of the ventral stream.PloS one · 2025Article
- Sub-bundle based analysis reveals the role of human optic radiation in visual working memory.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
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- Motor Control of Distinct Layer 6 Corticothalamic Feedback Circuits.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- A Unifying Model for Discordant and Concordant Results in Human Neuroimaging Studies of Facial Viewpoint Selectivity.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Canonical circuit computations for computer vision.Biological cybernetics · 2023Review
- Optic radiations representing different eccentricities age differently.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
- The Role of Foveal Cortex in Discriminating Peripheral Stimuli: The Sketchpad Hypothesis.NeuroSci · 2023Review
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Abstract
The physiological response properties of neurons in the visual system are inherited mainly from feedforward inputs. Interestingly, feedback inputs often outnumber feedforward inputs. Although they are numerous, feedback connections are weaker, slower, and considered to be modulatory, in contrast to fast, high-efficacy feedforward connections. Accordingly, the functional role of feedback in visual processing has remained a fundamental mystery in vision science. At the core of this mystery are questions about whether feedback circuits regulate spatial receptive field properties versus temporal responses among target neurons, or whether feedback serves a more global role in arousal or attention. These proposed functions are not mutually exclusive, and there is compelling evidence to support multiple functional roles for feedback. In this review, the role of feedback in vision will be explored mainly from the perspective of corticothalamic feedback. Further generalized principles of feedback applicable to corticocortical connections will also be considered.
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