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Causal role of the frontal eye field in attention-induced ocular dominance plasticity.

Fangxing Song, Xue Dong, Jiaxu Zhao, Jue Wang, Xiaohui Sang, Xin He, Min Bao

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Article in eLife, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Fangxing SongCAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1502-0800
Xue DongCAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9930-4260
Jiaxu ZhaoCAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Jue WangCAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Xiaohui SangCAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Xin HeCAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9941-8738
Min BaoCAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5347-9663
Chinese Academy of Sciences · CN

Funding

Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China 2021ZD0203800National Natural Science Foundation of China 31830037National Natural Science Foundation of China 31871104
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previous research has found that prolonged eye-based attention can bias ocular dominance. If one eye long-termly views a regular movie meanwhile the opposite eye views a backward movie of the same episode, perceptual ocular dominance will shift towards the eye previously viewing the backward movie. Yet it remains unclear whether the role of eye-based attention in this phenomenon is causal or not. To address this issue, the present study relied on both the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) techniques. We found robust activation of the frontal eye field (FEF) and intraparietal sulcus (IPS) when participants were watching the dichoptic movie while focusing their attention on the regular movie. Interestingly, we found a robust effect of attention-induced ocular dominance shift when the cortical function of vertex or IPS was transiently inhibited by continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS), yet the effect was significantly attenuated to a negligible extent when cTBS was delivered to FEF. A control experiment verified that the attenuation of ocular dominance shift after inhibitory stimulation of FEF was not due to any impact of the cTBS on the binocular rivalry measurement of ocular dominance. These findings suggest that the fronto-parietal attentional network is involved in controlling eye-based attention in the 'dichoptic-backward-movie' adaptation paradigm, and in this network, FEF plays a crucial causal role in generating the attention-induced ocular dominance shift.

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Dominance, OcularTranscranial Magnetic StimulationAttentionFrontal LobeHumansParietal LobePhotic Stimulationbinocular rivalryhumanHumanneuroscienceocular dominancevisual adaptationvisual attention

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