Stimulus Competition by Inhibitory Interference
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Abstract: When two stimuli are present in the receptive field of a V4 neuron, the firing rate response is between the weakest and strongest response elicited by each of the stimuli alone (Reynolds et al, 1999, Journal of Neuroscience 19:1736-1753). When attention is directed towards the stimulus eliciting the strongest response (the preferred stimulus), the response to the pair is increased, whereas the response decreases when attention is directed to the other stimulus (the poor stimulus). These experimental results were reproduced in a model of a V4 neuron under the assumption that attention modulates the activity of local interneuron networks. The V4 model neuron received stimulus-specific asynchronous excitation from V2 and synchronous inhibitory inputs from two local interneuron networks in V4. Each interneuron network was driven by stimulus-specific excitatory inputs from V2 and was modulated by a projection from the frontal eye fields. Stimulus competition was present because of a delay in arrival time of synchronous volleys from each interneuron network. For small delays, the firing rate was close to the rate elicited by the preferred stimulus alone, whereas for larger delays it approached the firing rate of the poor stimulus. When either stimulus was presented alone the neuron's response was not altered by the change in delay. The model suggests that top-down attention biases the competition between V2 columns for control of V4 neurons by changing the relative timing of inhibition rather than by changes in the degree of synchrony of interneuron networks. The mechanism proposed here for attentional modulation of firing rate - gain modulation by inhibitory interference - is likely to have more general applicability to cortical information processing.
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