题目：A source for awareness-dependent figure–ground segregation in human prefrontal cortex (PNAS paper)

主讲人：黄 玲 硕博连读研究生

导师：张喜淋 研究员

时间：2020年11月12日（周四）16:00-17:00

地点：心理学院301会议室

沙龙摘要：

Figure–ground modulation, i.e., the enhancement of neuronal responses evoked by the figure relative to the background, has three complementary components: edge modulation (boundary detection), center modulation (region filling), and background modulation (background suppression). However, the neuronal mechanisms mediating these three modulations and how they depend on awareness remain unclear. For each modulation, we compared both the cueing effect produced in a Posner paradigm and fMRI blood oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) signal in V1 evoked by visible relative to invisible orientation-defined figures. We found that edge modulation was independent of awareness, whereas both center and background modulations were strongly modulated by awareness, with greater modulations in the visible than the invisible condition. Effective-connectivity analysis further showed that the awareness-dependent region-filling and background-suppression processes in V1 were not derived through intracortical interactions within V1, but rather by feedback from FEF and DLPFC, respectively. These results indicate a source for an awareness-dependent figure–ground segregation in human prefrontal cortex.

报告人简介：

黄玲，本科毕业于安徽大学应用心理学专业，2018年至今在华南师范大学心理学院硕博连读。主要利用心理物理学、脑成像、眼动和计算模型研究注意、意识、视知觉、情绪及其神经机制。相关研究成果已以第一作者身份发表于《生理学报》（2019）、PNAS（2020）等权威学术期刊上。