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Prior expectations induce prestimulus sensory templates
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Significance: The way that we perceive the world is partly shaped by what we expect to see at any given moment. However, it is unclear how this process is neurally implemented. Recently, it has been proposed that the brain generates stimulus templates in sensory cortex to preempt expected inputs. Here, we provide evidence that a representation of the expected stimulus is present in the neural signal shortly before it is presented, showing that expectations can indeed induce the preactivation of stimulus templates. Importantly, these expectation signals resembled the neural signal evoked by an actually presented stimulus, suggesting that expectations induce similar patterns of activations in visual cortex as sensory stimuli.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kok, P., Mostert, P., & de Lange, F. P.
- Affiliations
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, 6525 EN Nijmegen, The Netherlands;
- Corresponding author
- Kok, Peter
- ORCID
- Kok, Peter
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2017-09-12
- Volume
- 114
- Issue
- 39
- Pages
- 10473-10478
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC5625909
- OpenAlex
- W2949604146
- Cited by
- 340
- References
- 68
- Citations by year
- 2026: 31 · 2025: 49 · 2024: 50 · 2023: 46 · 2022: 32 · 2021: 37 · 2020: 44 · 2019: 35 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 2
- FWCI
- 14.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Rubicon 446-15-004, VIDI 452-13-016)
- James S. McDonnell Foundation (220020373)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Keywords
- top-down expectations, pre-activation, sensory cortex, top-down modulation, multivariate decoding, task-relevant features
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Brain Mapping, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Photic Stimulation, Somatosensory Cortex, Visual Cortex, Visual Perception, Magnetoencephalography
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