Time-compressed preplay of anticipated events in human primary visual cortex

Perception is guided by anticipating future events, but it is not clear how this is computed neurally. Here, the authors use ultra-fast fMRI to show that humans preplay anticipated visual sequences in the primary visual cortex and that this preplay correlates with faster detection of the stimuli.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Matthias Ekman, Peter Kok, Floris P. de Lange
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15276