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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Expectation-dependent stimulus selectivity in the ventral visual cortical pathway.

Tiago S Altavini, Minggui Chen, Guadalupe Astorga, Yin Yan, Wu Li, Winrich Freiwald, Charles D Gilbert

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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7 authors.

Tiago S AltaviniLaboratory of Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065.
Minggui ChenLaboratory of Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065.ORCID 0000-0002-2617-9059
Guadalupe AstorgaLaboratory of Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065.
Yin YanBeijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5594-3020
Wu LiBeijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2175-4579
Winrich FreiwaldLaboratory of Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065.ORCID 0000-0001-8456-5030
Charles D GilbertLaboratory of Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065.ORCID 0000-0002-3866-6110

Funding

Leon Levy Fellowship for Neuroscience n/aMohapatra Fellowship for Vision Research n/aNSF (NSF) PHY1532846
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Abstract

The hierarchical view of the ventral object recognition pathway is primarily based on feedforward mechanisms, starting from a fixed basis set of object primitives and ending on a representation of whole objects in the inferotemporal cortex. Here, we provide a different view. Rather than being a fixed "labeled line" for a specific feature, neurons are continually changing their stimulus selectivities on a moment-to-moment basis, as dictated by top-down influences of object expectation and perceptual task. Here, we also derive the selectivity for stimulus features from an ethologically curated stimulus set, based on a delayed match-to-sample task, that finds components that are informative for object recognition in addition to full objects, though the top-down effects were seen for both informative and uninformative components. Cortical areas responding to these stimuli were identified with functional MRI in order to guide placement of chronically implanted electrode arrays.

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Visual CortexVisual PathwaysAnimalsFemaleMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleNeuronsPhotic Stimulationadaptive processingfeedbackobject recognitiontop–downvisual cortex

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PMID40146852
PMCPMC12002251

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