First-Pass Processing of Value Cues in the Ventral Visual Pathway.

ABSTRACT: Real-world value often depends on subtle, continuously variable visual cues specific to particular object categories, like the tailoring of a suit, the condition of an automobile, or the construction of a house. Here, we used microelectrode recording in behaving monkeys to test two possible mechanisms for category-specific value-cue processing: (1) previous findings suggest that prefrontal cortex (PFC) identifies object categories, and based on category identity, PFC could use top-down attentional modulation to enhance visual processing of category-specific value cues, providing signals to PFC for calculating value, and (2) a faster mechanism would be first-pass visual processing of category-specific value cues, immediately providing the necessary visual information to PFC. This, however,

SUBMITTER: Sasikumar D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5958621 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature