Pham, Trung Quang and Nishiyama, Shota and Sadato, Norihiro and Chikazoe, Junichi (2021) Distillation of Regional Activity Reveals Hidden Content of Neural Information in Visual Processing. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15. ISSN 1662-5161
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Abstract
Multivoxel pattern analysis (MVPA) has become a standard tool for decoding mental states from brain activity patterns. Recent studies have demonstrated that MVPA can be applied to decode activity patterns of a certain region from those of the other regions. By applying a similar region-to-region decoding technique, we examined whether the information represented in the visual areas can be explained by those represented in the other visual areas. We first predicted the brain activity patterns of an area on the visual pathway from the others, then subtracted the predicted patterns from their originals. Subsequently, the visual features were derived from these residuals. During the visual perception task, the elimination of the top-down signals enhanced the simple visual features represented in the early visual cortices. By contrast, the elimination of the bottom-up signals enhanced the complex visual features represented in the higher visual cortices. The directions of such modulation effects varied across visual perception/imagery tasks, indicating that the information flow across the visual cortices is dynamically altered, reflecting the contents of visual processing. These results demonstrated that the distillation approach is a useful tool to estimate the hidden content of information conveyed across brain regions.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | Science Repository > Medical Science |
Depositing User: | Managing Editor |
Date Deposited: | 16 Jan 2023 06:34 |
Last Modified: | 20 Jul 2024 09:04 |
URI: | http://research.manuscritpub.com/id/eprint/1393 |