Cortical Synchrony as a Mechanism of Collinear Facilitation and Suppression in Early Visual Cortex.

ABSTRACT: Stimulus-induced oscillations and synchrony among neuronal populations in visual cortex are well-established phenomena. Their functional role in cognition are, however, not well-understood. Recent studies have suggested that neural synchrony may underlie perceptual grouping as stimulus-frequency relationships and stimulus-dependent lateral connectivity profiles can determine the success or failure of synchronization among neuronal groups encoding different stimulus elements. We suggest that the same mechanism accounts for collinear facilitation and suppression effects where the detectability of a target Gabor stimulus is improved or diminished by the presence of collinear flanking Gabor stimuli. We propose a model of oscillators which represent three neuronal populations in visual cortex w

SUBMITTER: Evers K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8358273 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature