ArticleNature neuroscience2025
Recurrent pattern completion drives the neocortical representation of sensory inference.
Article in Nature neuroscience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Ecological Visual Processing in the Mouse.Annual review of neuroscience · 2026Review
- The neural code of perceptual inference.Molecular brain · 2026Review
- Cellular and subcellular specialization enables biology-constrained deep learning.Cell reports · 2026Article
- 2P-FENDO-II: A fiber bundle microscope for all-optical, large field-of-view brain studies in freely moving mice.Cell reports methods · 2026Article
- Contrasting predictive coding and representational accounts of perceptual organization, stimulus predictability, and attentional modulation in the visual cortical hierarchy.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Review
- Recurrent issues with deep neural network models of visual recognition.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Feature-specific inhibitory connectivity augments the accuracy of cortical representations.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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When sensory information is incomplete, the brain relies on prior expectations to infer perceptual objects. Despite the centrality of this process to perception, the neural mechanisms of sensory inference are not understood. Here we used illusory contours (ICs), multi-Neuropixels measurements, mesoscale two-photon (2p) calcium imaging and 2p holographic optogenetics in mice to reveal the neural codes and circuits of sensory inference. We discovered a specialized subset of neurons in primary visual cortex (V1) that respond emergently to illusory bars but not to component image segments. Selective holographic photoactivation of these 'IC-encoders' recreated the visual representation of ICs in V1 in the absence of any visual stimulus. These data imply that neurons that encode sensory inference are specialized for receiving and locally broadcasting top-down information. More generally, pattern completion circuits in lower cortical areas may selectively reinforce activity patterns that match prior expectations, constituting an integral step in perceptual inference.
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