Masataka Watanabe

The paper studies how mouse V1 neurons respond to the illusory 'darker than black' neon color spreading illusion, finding that a majority of neurons respond with direction tuning and phase shifts, indicating V1 involvement in illusory brightness processing.

The paper shows that perceptual attention in one sensory modality affects subsequent outcome-based learning in another modality by altering cortico-cortical interactions in rats.