Laminar dissociation of feedforward and feedback in high-level ventral visual cortex during imagery and perception.

ABSTRACT: Visual imagery and perception share neural machinery but rely on different information flow. While perception is driven by the integration of sensory feedforward and internally generated feedback information, imagery relies on feedback only. This suggests that although imagery and perception may activate overlapping brain regions, they do so in informationally distinctive ways. Using lamina-resolved MRI at 7 T, we measured the neural activity during imagery and perception of faces and scenes in high-level ventral visual cortex at the mesoscale of laminar organization that distinguishes feedforward from feedback signals. We found distinctive laminar profiles for imagery and perception of scenes and faces in the parahippocampal place area and the fusiform face area, respectively. Our finding

SUBMITTER: Carricarte T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11246059 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature