Attention gates visual coding in the human pulvinar
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The pulvinar nucleus of the thalamus is suspected to have an important role in visual attention, based on its widespread connectivity with the visual cortex and the fronto-parietal attention network. However, at present, there remain many hypotheses on the pulvinar's specific function, with sparse or conflicting evidence for each. Here we characterize how the human pulvinar encodes attended and ignored objects when they appear simultaneously and compete for attentional resources. Using multivoxel pattern analyses on data from two functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiments, we show that attention gates both position and orientation information in the pulvinar: attended objects are encoded with high precision, while there is no measurable encoding of ignored objects. These data support a role of the pulvinar in distractor filtering--suppressing information from competing stimuli to isolate behaviourally relevant objects.
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Human imaging studies report pulvinar activation consistent with filtering of distractors, such that only information pertaining to the attended target can be decoded from patterns of activity.
“Human imaging studies report pulvinar activation that is consistent with the filtering of distractors [50–52], such that only information pertaining to the attended target can be decoded from patterns of activity [53].”
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- Authors
- Fischer, J., & Whitney, D.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Corresponding author
- Fischer, Jason
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2012-09-11
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1051-1051
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3576929
- OpenAlex
- W2012180101
- Cited by
- 127
- References
- 48
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 4.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature Communications (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Eye Institute (EY-018216, R01EY018216, T32EY015387)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- pulvinar, visual attention, attentional gating, distractor filtering, object position, object orientation, thalamus, visual cortex, frontoparietal attention network, multi-voxel pattern analysis
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Orientation, Thalamus, Visual Perception, Pulvinar, Young Adult
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