On the emergence of primary visual perception.
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) September 1, 2011 Daniel A Pollen 20 citations
A novel conceptual and biological framework proposes that primary visual perception—the most basic level of awake subjective visual experience—requires more than just attention directed at neurons. Neural representations of image content in early visual areas remain latent until spatially linked to an attending observer via a first-person perspective. The simultaneous emergence of perceptual experience and personal ownership requires resolving conflicting signals between afferent and recurrent projections within and between the ventral and dorsal streams. A proposed 'posterior perceptual core' comprising V1/V2, V3, V4 complex, dorsal areas LIP, VIP, 7a, and motion areas V5/MT, FST, MST, plus subcortical dependencies, encodes normal primary perceptual experience of content, space, and minimal self.