title: Overlapping multivoxel patterns for two levels of visual expectation.
abstract: According to predictive accounts of perception, visual cortical regions encode sensory expectations about the external world, and the violation of those expectations by inputs (surprise). Here, using multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, we asked whether expectations and surprise activate the same pattern of voxels, in face-sensitive regions of the extra-striate visual cortex (the fusiform face area or FFA). Participants viewed pairs of repeating or alternating faces, with high or low probability of repetitions. As in previous studies, we found that repetition suppression (the attenuated BOLD response to repeated stimuli) in the FFA was more pronounced for probable repetitions, consistent with it reflecting reduced surprise to anticipated inputs. Secondly, we observed that repetition suppression and repetition enhancement responses were both consistent across scanner runs, suggesting that both have functional significance, with repetition enhancement possibly indicating the build up of sensory expectation. Critically, we also report that multi-voxels patterns associated with probability and repetition effects were significantly correlated within the left FFA. We argue that repetition enhancement responses and repetition probability effects can be seen as two types of expectation signals, occurring simultaneously, although at different processing levels (lower vs. higher), and different time scales (immediate vs. long term).
authors: Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford Oxford, UK.
authors: Vincent
authors: V
authors: de Gardelle
authors: Mark
authors: M
authors: Stokes
authors: Vanessa M
authors: VM
authors: Johnen
authors: Valentin
authors: V
authors: Wyart
authors: Christopher
authors: C
authors: Summerfield
keywords: MVPA; expectations; fMRI BOLD; functional imaging; predictive coding; repetition suppression
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