用模型指导电刺激,让猴子看清复杂图像。
Model-Guided Microstimulation Steers Primate Visual Behavior
- 构建计算框架,将刺激参数转化为神经活动变化。
- 刺激高阶视觉区后,猴子感知选择显著改变,预测与行为高度相关。
- 适合脑机接口、视觉假体研究者,推动复杂视觉体验实现。
脑刺激是理解皮层功能并治疗精神疾病的重要工具。早期视觉假体通过刺激初级视觉皮层,可引发字母等简单视觉感知,但受限于硬件和该区域表征层次低。相比之下,高阶视觉区编码更复杂的物体表征,是理想的刺激靶点,但如何确定能可靠诱发物体感知的靶点仍是难题。本文提出一种计算框架,包含三个关键部分:(1) 扰动模块,将微刺激参数转换为神经活动的空间变化;(2) 拓扑模型,捕捉神经元空间组织,用于模拟刺激实验;(3) 映射方法,将模型优化的刺激位点映射回猴脑。在两只猕猴执行视觉识别任务时,模型预测的刺激实验导致显著的感知选择变化。单点预测与猴行为强相关,验证了模型引导刺激的有效性。图像生成显示,对脸选择性位点的仿真刺激与患者报告的脸形幻觉具有定性相似性。这一原理验证为模型引导微刺激奠定基础,指向能诱发更复杂视觉体验的下一代视觉假体。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Brain stimulation is a powerful tool for understanding cortical function and holds promise for therapeutic interventions in neuropsychiatric disorders. Initial visual prosthetics apply electric microstimulation to early visual cortex which can evoke percepts of simple symbols such as letters. However, these approaches are fundamentally limited by hardware constraints and the low-level representational properties of this cortical region. In contrast, higher-level visual areas encode more complex object representations and therefore constitute a promising target for stimulation - but determining representational targets that reliably evoke object-level percepts constitutes a major challenge. We here introduce a computational framework to causally model and guide stimulation of high-level cortex, comprising three key components: (1) a perturbation module that translates microstimulation parameters into spatial changes to neural activity, (2) topographic models that capture the spatial organization of cortical neurons and thus enable prototyping of stimulation experiments, and (3) a mapping procedure that links model-optimized stimulation sites back to primate cortex. Applying this framework in two macaque monkeys performing a visual recognition task, model-predicted stimulation experiments produced significant in-vivo changes in perceptual choices. Per-site model predictions and monkey behavior were strongly correlated, underscoring the promise of model-guided stimulation. Image generation further revealed a qualitative similarity between in-silico stimulation of face-selective sites and a patient's report of facephenes. This proof-of-principle establishes a foundation for model-guided microstimulation and points toward next-generation visual prosthetics capable of inducing more complex visual experiences.
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