Differential destinations, dynamics, and functions of high- and low-order features in the feedback signal during object processing.

ABSTRACT: Brain is a hierarchical information processing system, in which the feedback signals from high-level to low-level regions are critical. The feedback signals may convey complex high-order features (e.g. category, identity) and simple low-order features (e.g. orientation, spatial frequency) to sensory cortex to interact with the feedforward information, but how these types of feedback information are represented and how they differ in facilitating visual processing remains unclear. The current study used the peripheral object discrimination task, 7T fMRI, and MEG to isolate feedback from feedforward signals in human early visual cortex. The results showed that feedback signals conveyed both low-order features natively encoded in early visual cortex and high-order features generated in high-l

SUBMITTER: Hou W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12758844 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature