PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Arjen Alink
AU  - Caspar M. Schwiedrzik
AU  - Axel Kohler
AU  - Wolf Singer
AU  - Lars Muckli
TI  - Stimulus Predictability Reduces Responses in Primary Visual Cortex
AID  - 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3730-10.2010
DP  - 2010 Feb 24
TA  - The Journal of Neuroscience
PG  - 2960--2966
VI  - 30
IP  - 8
4099  - http://www.jneurosci.org/content/30/8/2960.short
4100  - http://www.jneurosci.org/content/30/8/2960.full
SO  - J. Neurosci.2010 Feb 24; 30
AB  - In this functional magnetic resonance imaging study we tested whether the predictability of stimuli affects responses in primary visual cortex (V1). The results of this study indicate that visual stimuli evoke smaller responses in V1 when their onset or motion direction can be predicted from the dynamics of surrounding illusory motion. We conclude from this finding that the human brain anticipates forthcoming sensory input that allows predictable visual stimuli to be processed with less neural activation at early stages of cortical processing.