Priming with real motion biases visual cortical response to bistable apparent motion. Zhang, Q., Wen, Y., Zhang, D., She, L., Wu, J., Dan, Y., & Poo, M. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(50):20691–6, December, 2012.
Priming with real motion biases visual cortical response to bistable apparent motion. [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
Apparent motion quartet is an ambiguous stimulus that elicits bistable perception, with the perceived motion alternating between two orthogonal paths. In human psychophysical experiments, the probability of perceiving motion in each path is greatly enhanced by a brief exposure to real motion along that path. To examine the neural mechanism underlying this priming effect, we used voltage-sensitive dye (VSD) imaging to measure the spatiotemporal activity in the primary visual cortex (V1) of awake mice. We found that a brief real motion stimulus transiently biased the cortical response to subsequent apparent motion toward the spatiotemporal pattern representing the real motion. Furthermore, intracellular recording from V1 neurons in anesthetized mice showed a similar increase in subthreshold depolarization in the neurons representing the path of real motion. Such short-term plasticity in early visual circuits may contribute to the priming effect in bistable visual perception.
@article{Zhang2012,
	title = {Priming with real motion biases visual cortical response to bistable apparent motion.},
	volume = {109},
	issn = {1091-6490},
	url = {http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=3528509&tool=pmcentrez&rendertype=abstract},
	doi = {10.1073/pnas.1218654109},
	abstract = {Apparent motion quartet is an ambiguous stimulus that elicits bistable perception, with the perceived motion alternating between two orthogonal paths. In human psychophysical experiments, the probability of perceiving motion in each path is greatly enhanced by a brief exposure to real motion along that path. To examine the neural mechanism underlying this priming effect, we used voltage-sensitive dye (VSD) imaging to measure the spatiotemporal activity in the primary visual cortex (V1) of awake mice. We found that a brief real motion stimulus transiently biased the cortical response to subsequent apparent motion toward the spatiotemporal pattern representing the real motion. Furthermore, intracellular recording from V1 neurons in anesthetized mice showed a similar increase in subthreshold depolarization in the neurons representing the path of real motion. Such short-term plasticity in early visual circuits may contribute to the priming effect in bistable visual perception.},
	number = {50},
	urldate = {2013-08-12},
	journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
	author = {Zhang, Qing-fang and Wen, Yunqing and Zhang, Deng and She, Liang and Wu, Jian-young and Dan, Yang and Poo, Mu-ming},
	month = dec,
	year = {2012},
	pmid = {23188797},
	keywords = {\#nosource, Adult, Animals, Brain Mapping, Eye Movements, Eye Movements: physiology, Female, Fluorescent Dyes, Humans, Male, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Models, Neurological, Motion, Motion Perception, Motion Perception: physiology, Neuronal Plasticity, Photic Stimulation, Psychophysics, Visual Cortex, Visual Cortex: physiology, Young Adult},
	pages = {20691--6},
}

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