Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Decision-related feedback in visual cortex lacks spatial selectivity

  • Katrina R. Quinn,
  • Lenka Seillier,
  • Daniel A. Butts,
  • Hendrikje Nienborg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24629-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Feedback modulates visual neurons, thought to help achieve flexible task performance. Here, the authors show decision-related feedback is not only relayed to task-relevant neurons, suggesting a broader mechanism and supporting a previously hypothesized link to feature-based attention.