Abstract #5367

Evidence of modulation of laminar profiles by contextual modulation in V1 using high-resolution fMRI

Kimberly B Weldon¹, Michael-Paul Schallmo², Philip C Burton³, Andrea N Grant⁴, and Cheryl A Olman¹

¹Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, ²Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, ³Office of the Associate Dean for Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, ⁴Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States

We characterized depth-dependent laminar profiles of surround suppression in human early visual cortex with high-resolution 7T fMRI. In a block-design participants viewed circular target stimuli (gratings defined by sinusoidal luminance modulation) surrounded by an annulus with a grating either parallel or orthogonal to the target grating. The surround was placed either adjacent to the target grating (Near) or separated from the target by 2° of visual angle (Far). Results show a similar activation profile for Parallel and Orthogonal conditions in the Far condition across depth. For the Near condition, contextual modulation occurred more in deep, rather than superficial layers.

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