Large-scale interactions in predictive processing: oscillatory versus transient dynamics

M Vinck, C Uran, JR Dowdall, B Rummell… - Trends in cognitive …, 2024 - cell.com
How do the two main types of neural dynamics, aperiodic transients and oscillations,
contribute to the interactions between feedforward (FF) and feedback (FB) pathways in …

Convolutional neural networks for vision neuroscience: significance, developments, and outstanding issues

A Celeghin, A Borriero, D Orsenigo, M Diano… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are a class of machine learning models
predominately used in computer vision tasks and can achieve human-like performance …

Increasing associative plasticity in temporo-occipital back-projections improves visual perception of emotions

S Borgomaneri, M Zanon, P Di Luzio… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) is a critical node in a network specialized for
perceiving emotional facial expressions that is reciprocally connected with early visual …

Early selection of task-relevant features through population gating

J Barbosa, R Proville, CC Rodgers… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Brains can gracefully weed out irrelevant stimuli to guide behavior. This feat is believed to
rely on a progressive selection of task-relevant stimuli across the cortical hierarchy, but the …

Information-processing dynamics in neural networks of macaque cerebral cortex reflect cognitive state and behavior

TF Varley, O Sporns, S Schaffelhofer… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
One of the essential functions of biological neural networks is the processing of information.
This includes everything from processing sensory information to perceive the environment …

[HTML][HTML] A recruitment through coherence theory of working memory

P Comeaux, K Clark, B Noudoost - Progress in Neurobiology, 2023 - Elsevier
The interactions between prefrontal cortex and other areas during working memory have
been studied for decades. Here we outline a conceptual framework describing interactions …

Suppressing feedback signals to visual cortex abolishes attentional modulation

SR Debes, V Dragoi - Science, 2023 - science.org
Attention improves perception by enhancing the neural encoding of sensory information. A
long-standing hypothesis is that cortical feedback projections carry top-down signals to …

Flexible neural population dynamics govern the speed and stability of sensory encoding in mouse visual cortex

EAB Horrocks, FR Rodrigues, AB Saleem - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Time courses of neural responses underlie real-time sensory processing and perception.
How these temporal dynamics change may be fundamental to how sensory systems adapt …

Behavior-relevant top-down cross-modal predictions in mouse neocortex

S Han, F Helmchen - Nature Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
Animals adapt to a constantly changing world by predicting their environment and the
consequences of their actions. The predictive coding hypothesis proposes that the brain …

Multiscale chemogenetic dissection of fronto-temporal top-down regulation for object memory in primates

T Hirabayashi, Y Nagai, Y Hori, Y Hori, K Oyama… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Visual object memory is a fundamental element of various cognitive abilities, and the
underlying neural mechanisms have been extensively examined especially in the anterior …