Evidence map›Paper›PMID 35059603›Full record

ArticleiScience2022

Effects of top-down influence suppression on behavioral and V1 neuronal contrast sensitivity functions in cats.

Jian Ding, Zheng Ye, Fei Xu, Xiangmei Hu, Hao Yu, Shen Zhang, Yanni Tu, Qiuyu Zhang, Qingyan Sun, Tianmiao Hua and 1 more

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in iScience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Jian DingCollege of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241000, China.
Zheng YeCollege of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241000, China.
Fei XuCollege of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241000, China.
Xiangmei HuCollege of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241000, China.
Hao YuCollege of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241000, China.
Shen ZhangCollege of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241000, China.
Yanni TuCollege of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241000, China.
Qiuyu ZhangCollege of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241000, China.
Qingyan SunCollege of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241000, China.
Tianmiao HuaCollege of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241000, China.
Zhong-Lin LuDivison of Arts and Sciences, NYU Shanghai, Shanghai 200122, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To explore the relative contributions of higher-order and primary visual cortex (V1) to visual perception, we compared cats' behavioral and V1 neuronal contrast sensitivity functions (CSF) and threshold versus external noise contrast (TvC) functions before and after top-down influence of area 7 (A7) was modulated with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). We found that suppressing top-down influence of A7 with cathode-tDCS, but not sham-tDCS, reduced behavioral and neuronal contrast sensitivity in the same range of spatial frequencies and increased behavioral and neuronal contrast thresholds in the same range of external noise levels. The neuronal CSF and TvC functions were highly correlated with their behavioral counterparts both before and after the top-down suppression. Analysis of TvC functions using the Perceptual Template Model (PTM) indicated that top-down influence of A7 increased both behavioral and V1 neuronal contrast sensitivity by reducing internal additive noise and the impact of external noise.

Indexed as

Behavioral neuroscienceBiological scienceSensory neuroscienceVisual neuroscience

Identifiers

PMID35059603
PMCPMC8760559

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

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.