Pattern completion and disruption characterize contextual modulation in the visual cortex
Jiakun Fu, Suhas Shrinivasan, Luca Baroni, Zhuokun Ding, Paul G. Fahey, Paweł A. Pierzchlewicz, Kayla Ponder, Rachel Froebe, Lydia Ntanavara, Taliah Muhammad, Konstantin F. Willeke, Eric Y. Wang, Zhiwei Ding, Dat T. Tran, Stelios Papadopoulos, , Katrin Franke
The paper uses CNNs to analyze contextual modulation in visual cortex by synthesizing surround patterns, finding that pattern completion enhances responses while disruption suppresses them, consistent across mice and macaques.
bioRxiv · Mar 13, 2023 · PreprintNeuroscience