Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Stream-specific feedback inputs to the primate primary visual cortex

  • Frederick Federer,
  • Seminare Ta’afua,
  • Sam Merlin,
  • Mahlega S. Hassanpour,
  • Alessandra Angelucci

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20505-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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In the primate cortex, visual images are processed by multiple hierarchically-organized areas reciprocally connected via feedforward and feedback circuits. Here the authors show that feedback circuits are organized into segregated parallel streams that resemble feedforward pathways.