Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

V1-bypassing suppression leads to direction-specific microsaccade modulation in visual coding and perception

  • Yujie Wu,
  • Tian Wang,
  • Tingting Zhou,
  • Yang Li,
  • Yi Yang,
  • Weifeng Dai,
  • Yange Zhang,
  • Chuanliang Han,
  • Dajun Xing

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34057-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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How microsaccades modulate visual coding and perception remains incompletely understood. Here, the authors identify an emerging suppression specific to microsaccade directions that alters responses in macaque V2 and impacts perceptual decisions.