Nienborg Hendrikje, Roelfsema Pieter R
Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tuebingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany.
Department of Vision and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Centre for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Psychiatry Department, Academic Medical Center, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2015 Jun;32:45-52. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2014.10.013. Epub 2014 Nov 17.
The activity of sensory neurons is modulated by non-sensory influences, but the role of these influences in cognition is only partially understood. Here we review how the large-scale recording of neuronal activity within and across brain regions allows researchers to examine the interactions between simultaneously recorded neurons as they are jointly influenced by fluctuations in an animal's mental state. We focus on studies on the visual cortex of non-human primates to examine the relationship between extra-retinal influences and beliefs about the state of the sensory world. We explore how these influences can be understood within theoretical frameworks that propose how the continuous updating of belief states supports perceptual inference.
感觉神经元的活动受非感觉因素的调节，但这些因素在认知中的作用仅得到部分理解。在此，我们回顾了大脑区域内和区域间神经元活动的大规模记录如何使研究人员能够检查同时记录的神经元之间的相互作用，因为它们会受到动物心理状态波动的共同影响。我们重点关注对非人类灵长类动物视觉皮层的研究，以检验视网膜外影响与关于感觉世界状态的信念之间的关系。我们探讨了如何在理论框架内理解这些影响，这些理论框架提出了信念状态的持续更新如何支持感知推理。
