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Decoding Sound and Imagery Content in Early Visual Cortex
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Human early visual cortex was traditionally thought to process simple visual features such as orientation, contrast, and spatial frequency via feedforward input from the lateral geniculate nucleus (e.g., [1]). However, the role of nonretinal influence on early visual cortex is so far insufficiently investigated despite much evidence that feedback connections greatly outnumber feedforward connections [2-5]. Here, we explored in five fMRI experiments how information originating from audition and imagery affects the brain activity patterns in early visual cortex in the absence of any feedforward visual stimulation. We show that category-specific information from both complex natural sounds and imagery can be read out from early visual cortex activity in blindfolded participants. The coding of nonretinal information in the activity patterns of early visual cortex is common across actual auditory perception and imagery and may be mediated by higher-level multisensory areas. Furthermore, this coding is robust to mild manipulations of attention and working memory but affected by orthogonal, cognitively demanding visuospatial processing. Crucially, the information fed down to early visual cortex is category specific and generalizes to sound exemplars of the same category, providing evidence for abstract information feedback rather than precise pictorial feedback. Our results suggest that early visual cortex receives nonretinal input from other brain areas when it is generated by auditory perception and/or imagery, and this input carries common abstract information. Our findings are compatible with feedback of predictive information to the earliest visual input level (e.g., [6]), in line with predictive coding models [7-10].
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Using fMRI and multivariate pattern analysis in blindfolded participants, this paper shows that category-specific information from natural sounds and auditory imagery can be decoded from early visual cortex activity without feedforward visual stimulation. The feedback appears abstract/categorical rather than pictorial, is robust to mild attention/working-memory interference, and is disrupted by demanding visuospatial processing.
Key findings
- In experiment 1, a linear SVM discriminated three natural sounds (bird singing, traffic noise, talking crowd) from early visual cortex, particularly V2 and V3, at about 42%; classification also succeeded in auditory cortex but not motor cortex.
- In experiment 2, imagined sounds were decoded from V1 and auditory cortex, and cross-classification between sound perception and imagery succeeded in V1 and V2, indicating shared activity patterns across real and imagined sounds.
- In experiment 3, decoding during natural sound stimulation remained successful mainly in peripheral regions and consistently in V2 despite an orthogonal auditory working-memory task; in experiment 4, a demanding visuospatial imagery task left only residual above-chance classification in far-peripheral V2.
- In experiment 5, “human” versus “inanimate” sound categories were classified in several early visual areas for eight out of nine exemplar combinations, and cross-classification across different exemplars within a category succeeded in V2 and V3 in two out of three combinations, supporting abstract/categorical feedback rather than precise pictorial reinstatement.
Methods
- Five fMRI experiments with blindfolded participants omitted visual stimulation while subjects listened to natural sounds, imagined sounds from word cues, or performed orthogonal cognitive tasks during sound stimulation.
- Activity patterns were extracted from retinotopically mapped V1, V2, and V3 and analyzed with multivariate pattern classification, primarily a linear support vector machine; whole-brain searchlight analyses identified other regions carrying sound/imagery content.
- Univariate GLM analyses tested whether decoding was driven by positive activation or deactivation; cross-classification tested generalization between perception and imagery and across sound exemplars within categories.
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- The paper states that classification accuracies were relatively low, describing the results as proof of principle and robust across subject and stimulus samples.
- The paper notes that without feedforward stimulation, it is difficult to study the functional role of nonretinal feedback in actual visual perception.
- The paper states that whether the proposed pathways play a causal role in inducing differential activity patterns remains to be investigated; the provided text also does not report exact sample sizes per experiment.
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“Crucially, cross-classification succeeded in V2 and V3 in two out of three combinations, i.e., training the classifier for the pair “traffic 1” versus “people 1” lead to successful classification of “traffic 2” versus “people 2,” and training the classifier for the pair “traffic 2” versus “people 2” lead to successful classification of “airplane” versus “kids” (Figure 3H; Table S1).”
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“Cross-classification succeeded in V1 and V2 (Figure 2G).”
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“In auditory cortex, cross-classification did not succeed, indicating that activity patterns induced by feedforward auditory stimulation are coded differently than those induced by feedback through auditory imagery.”
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“In experiments 3 and 4, the secondary tasks activated early visual areas consistent with an engagement of object attention.”
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“In experiments 1 and 2, real and imagined sounds could be decoded in parts of the precuneus and in posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) (see overlapping regions in Figure 4).”
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“Sounds and, to a lesser extent, imagined sounds were successfully classified in a network of frontal regions, including superior and middle frontal sulci.”
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“Activity patterns during natural sound stimulation were again successfully decoded from early visual cortex, mainly in peripheral regions and consistently in V2 (Figures 3B and 3C). This demonstrates that simultaneous retention of orthogonal contents in working memory did not strongly affect classification.”
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“The classifier successfully discriminated the three different sounds in early visual cortex, particularly in V2 and V3 (at ∼42%; see Figure 2; for results with increased statistical power, see Figure S1A).”
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“Hence, activity patterns in early visual cortex contained sufficient information from auditory stimulation to allow the content-specific discrimination of natural sounds.”
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“The univariate activity profile also showed that classification was not driven by one sound eliciting more attention-related activity than another sound (Figure S3).”
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“Unsurprisingly, sounds could be decoded in a large part of bilateral superior temporal sulcus mostly belonging to auditory cortex (Figure 4).”
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“Even at very liberal thresholds (p < 0.05 uncorrected; Figure S3), listening to sounds in the absence of visual stimulation elicited no positive activation in early visual areas but instead elicited a weak deactivation, consistent with previous findings (e.g.,[16]) and in contrast to classical findings for visual mental imagery [17, 18].”
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“Successful discrimination of imagined sounds was observed in both foveal and peripheral areas of early visual cortex (but not far periphery), in V1 and auditory cortex (Figures 2E and 2F; classification of real sounds replicated the results of experiment 1, cf. Figure S1B).”
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“Therefore, even in the absence of both visual and auditory stimulation, the contents of mental imagery could be decoded from both V1 and auditory cortex.”
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“Imagery (experiment 2) elicited no positive activity but exhibited weak deactivations in both early visual and auditory cortices.”
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“Although the classifier failed to discriminate the three natural sounds in most of early visual cortex, residual above-chance classification remained in the far periphery of V2 (Figures 3E and 3F) despite the orthogonal engagement of attentionally demanding active visuospatial processing.”
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“Moreover, higher visual areas project back to V1 the associated color of grayscale objects [36] or the predicted motion path of an apparent motion illusion [37, 38].”
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- Not checked yetcites [36] Bannert, 2013, Decoding the yellow of a gray banana, Curr. Biol. source
- Not checked yetcites [37] Muckli, 2005, Primary visual cortex activity along the apparent-motion trace reflects illusory perception, PLoS Biol. source
- Not checked yetcites [38] Vetter, 2013, TMS over V5 disrupts motion prediction, Cereb. Cortex
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“Our findings are compatible with feedback of predictive information to the earliest visual input level (e.g., [6]), in line with predictive coding models [7–10].”
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- Not checked yetcites [6] Mumford, 1992, On the computational architecture of the neocortex. II. The role of cortico-cortical loops, Biol. Cybern. source
- Not checked yetcites [7] Friston, 2010, The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory?, Nat. Rev. Neurosci. source
- Not checked yetcites [8] Clark, 2013, Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science, Behav. Brain Sci. source
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- Not checked yetcites [10] Bastos, 2012, Canonical microcircuits for predictive coding, Neuron source
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“Furthermore, this coding is robust to mild manipulations of attention and working memory but affected by orthogonal, cognitively demanding visuospatial processing.”
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“This demonstrates that both sounds and imagery cues induced similar activity patterns in early visual cortex and that feedback information is coded consistently across imagery and auditory perception.”
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“Note that despite relatively low classification accuracies, our series of experiments replicated the successful decoding of sounds in early visual areas several times, demonstrating proof of principle and the robustness of our results across different subject and stimulus samples.”
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“In the context of our findings, we suggest that the content-specific information from sounds, when they are heard and/or imagined, is relayed from auditory cortex to early visual cortex via pSTS and precuneus, eliciting differential activity patterns in both of these regions.”
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“The coding of nonretinal information in the activity patterns of early visual cortex is common across actual auditory perception and imagery and may be mediated by higher-level multisensory areas.”
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“Our results suggest that early visual cortex receives nonretinal input from other brain areas when it is generated by auditory perception and/or imagery, and this input carries common abstract information.”
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“The precuneus has been identified as an area responding to both visual and auditory stimuli and possibly serving as an audiovisual convergence area [25].”
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- Not checked yetcites [25] Hertz, 2010, Disentangling unisensory and multisensory components in audiovisual integration using a novel multifrequency fMRI spectral analysis, Neuroimage source
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“The results of experiment 5 suggest that the information that is fed down to early visual cortex is not only content specific but also category specific, i.e., related to the information shared by sound exemplars of the same category.”
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“The findings of experiment 5 furthermore demonstrate that the successful decoding in experiment 1 was not specific to the first sound exemplars we used and could not be caused by differential low-level acoustic features of the sounds (e.g., frequency distribution).”
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“This suggests that information feedback is unlikely to be caused by an exact pictorial representation but instead contains abstract and possibly semantic information.”
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“Apart from the route via multisensory areas, there is evidence for multisensory integration on the subcortical level [27] and for direct anatomical connections between early auditory and early visual areas [12, 28, 29], mostly reaching peripheral regions [12–14], consistent with both our eccentricity and searchlight results.”
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- Not checked yetcites [27] van den Brink, 2013, Subcortical, modality-specific pathways contribute to multisensory processing in humans, Cereb. Cortex
- Not checked yetcites [12] Eckert, 2008, A cross-modal system linking primary auditory and visual cortices: evidence from intrinsic fMRI connectivity analysis, Hum. Brain Mapp. source
- Not checked yetcites [28] Beer, 2013, Combined diffusion-weighted and functional magnetic resonance imaging reveals a temporal-occipital network involved in auditory-visual object processing, Front Integr Neurosci source
- Not checked yetcites [29] Beer, 2011, Diffusion tensor imaging shows white matter tracts between human auditory and visual cortex, Exp. Brain Res. source
- Not checked yetcites [13] Rockland, 2003, Multisensory convergence in calcarine visual areas in macaque monkey, Int. J. Psychophysiol. source
- Not checked yetcites [14] Cate, 2009, Auditory attention activates peripheral visual cortex, PLoS ONE source
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“This also means that our results were not caused by an unspecific attention effect or a simple reactivation of early visual cortex due to pictorial visual mental imagery.”
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“Our results demonstrate that the information arriving in early visual cortex is categorical and independent of its exact source.”
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“For example, activity patterns in nonstimulated parts of early visual cortex contain content-specific information from the surrounding visual context [31, 32], from objects presented in the periphery [33], and from visual stimuli solely held in working memory rather than being actively perceived [34, 35].”
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- Not checked yetcites [31] Smith, 2010, Nonstimulated early visual areas carry information about surrounding context, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA source
- Not checked yetcites [32] Ban, 2013, Topographic representation of an occluded object and the effects of spatiotemporal context in human early visual areas, J. Neurosci. source
- Not checked yetcites [33] Williams, 2008, Feedback of visual object information to foveal retinotopic cortex, Nat. Neurosci. source
- Not checked yetcites [34] Harrison, 2009, Decoding reveals the contents of visual working memory in early visual areas, Nature source
- Not checked yetcites [35] Albers, 2013, Shared representations for working memory and mental imagery in early visual cortex, Curr. Biol. source
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“Also, hippocampal projections to peripheral early visual regions have been demonstrated in the context of boundary extension for scene processing [30].”
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- Not checked yetcites [30] Chadwick, 2013, The hippocampus extrapolates beyond the view in scenes: an fMRI study of boundary extension, Cortex source
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“pSTS is implicated in audiovisual integration and has been shown to feed down information to primary visual and auditory cortices [26].”
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- Not checked yetcites [26] Naumer, 2011, Investigating human audio-visual object perception with a combination of hypothesis-generating and hypothesis-testing fMRI analysis tools, Exp. Brain Res. source
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“That is, the information contained in these activity patterns is generalizable across different sound exemplars within a category, demonstrating that sounds trigger shared categorical information transfer to early visual cortex rather than a fine-grained pictorial representation.”
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“In fact, previous accounts suggested that prediction and mental imagery may involve overlapping brain mechanisms [6, 43, 44], and mental imagery might have evolved from predictive brain mechanisms.”
§ Decoding Sound and Imagery Content in Early Visual Cortex > Discussion
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The paper relies on this without support.
The word cues “forest,” “traffic,” and “people” reliably elicit the intended mental imagery of the corresponding sounds and natural scenes in subjects.
“Subjects were instructed to engage in mental imagery of the sounds and a corresponding natural scene.”
“runs in which subjects solely imagined the sounds upon hearing the word cues “forest,” “traffic,” or “people””
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“Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has shown that feedback from higher- to lower-level sensory cortices carries spatiotemporally precise and context-specific predictions (25–29).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Vetter, P., Smith, F. W., & Muckli, L.
- Affiliations
- University of Geneva (CH)
- University of Glasgow (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Vetter, Petra
- Muckli, Lars
- Venue
- Current Biology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-06
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1256-1262
- ISSN
- 0960-9822 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4046224
- OpenAlex
- W2016034937
- Semantic Scholar
- e40eefc9d7e41953e2a24e0bfd9701be9b8752bd
- Cited by
- 323
- References
- 52
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 23 · 2024: 38 · 2023: 75 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 25 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 19 · 2016: 20 · 2015: 25 · 2014: 6
- FWCI
- 32.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Current Biology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam) (acceptedVersion)
- Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
- UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/G005044/1)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Keywords
- early visual cortex, auditory imagery, auditory perception, top-down feedback, multisensory integration, predictive coding, abstract information, visuospatial processing, attention, working memory, blindfolded participants
- MeSH terms
- Acoustic Stimulation, Auditory Perception, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Memory, Short-Term, Photic Stimulation, Visual Cortex, Visual Perception
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