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Abstract

In a variety of attention and search tasks, single-cell recordings of the primate brain have frequently shown an enhancement of responses in early visual areas to selected target stimuli. This enhancement is observed only at longer latencies, suggesting the possibility that it reflects the action of feedback or return signals from upstream processing areas. However, in typical studies, targets are specified on the basis of elementary visual features; as these are coded at multiple levels of the visual system, it is impossible to determine where enhanced target processing begins. Using human functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we demonstrate enhancement of activity in early visual areas even when low-level visual information is insufficient for target detection to occur. We found enhanced activity in early visual areas to targets defined purely by semantic category, suggesting that feedback signals returning from at least as far forward as temporal lobe semantic processing can influence visual responses. These findings also suggest feedback signaling as a mechanism by which early and late brain systems coding for different properties of a target object can integrate their activity, allowing for the target object to dominate overall processing.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	Brighton and Sussex Medical School > Clinical and Experimental Medicine Brighton and Sussex Medical School > Neuroscience
Subjects:	Q Science > QZ Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry > RC0346 Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system Including speech disorders
Depositing User:	Grecia GarciaGarcia
Date Deposited:	22 Aug 2011 10:39
Last Modified:	26 Sep 2017 11:55
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7281
Google Scholar:	6 Citations

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