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The role of melanopsin photoreception on visual attention linked pupil responses
A decision during a visual task is marked by a task‐evoked pupil dilation (TEPD) that is linked to the global cortical arousal state. Melanopsin expressing intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) form the afferent pathway for this pupil response. Melanopsin activation also influ...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9324975/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35357050 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15659 |
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author | Gnyawali, Subodh Feigl, Beatrix Adhikari, Prakash Zele, Andrew J. |
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description | A decision during a visual task is marked by a task‐evoked pupil dilation (TEPD) that is linked to the global cortical arousal state. Melanopsin expressing intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) form the afferent pathway for this pupil response. Melanopsin activation also influences mood and arousal and increases activity in decision‐making brain areas that receive direct ipRGC projections. Here, an optical photostimulation method controlled the excitations of all five photoreceptor classes in the human eye to isolate melanopsin‐mediated photoreception. We hypothesised that the TEPD can be driven by directing active visual covert attention through the ipRGC pathway. When observers are completely certain of the stimulus presence, melanopsin‐directed stimulation produces a TEPD of similar amplitude to a cone‐directed stimulation, with their combination producing larger amplitudes. This dilation is satisfactorily modelled by linear addition with a higher melanopsin weighting in ipRGCs. Visual reaction times were longest in response to melanopsin‐directed lights. Next, we asked whether the afferent photoreceptor input and decision certainty, controlled by priming the observer's a priori expectation, interact to drive the TEPD. Signal detection analysis showed that by fixing the predecision certainty (bias), the phasic arousal and TEPD amplitude vary with observer criterion (c′) and sensitivity (d′) but not with preferential activation of melanopsin. The signature feature of the melanopsin response during attention was a biphasic TEPD. We conclude that active covert attention can be modulated by visual information mediated via ipRGCs, but that phasic arousal responses marked using the TEPD are not increased by higher levels of melanopsin activation. |
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spelling | pubmed-93249752022-07-30 The role of melanopsin photoreception on visual attention linked pupil responses Gnyawali, Subodh Feigl, Beatrix Adhikari, Prakash Zele, Andrew J. Eur J Neurosci Systems Neuroscience A decision during a visual task is marked by a task‐evoked pupil dilation (TEPD) that is linked to the global cortical arousal state. Melanopsin expressing intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) form the afferent pathway for this pupil response. Melanopsin activation also influences mood and arousal and increases activity in decision‐making brain areas that receive direct ipRGC projections. Here, an optical photostimulation method controlled the excitations of all five photoreceptor classes in the human eye to isolate melanopsin‐mediated photoreception. We hypothesised that the TEPD can be driven by directing active visual covert attention through the ipRGC pathway. When observers are completely certain of the stimulus presence, melanopsin‐directed stimulation produces a TEPD of similar amplitude to a cone‐directed stimulation, with their combination producing larger amplitudes. This dilation is satisfactorily modelled by linear addition with a higher melanopsin weighting in ipRGCs. Visual reaction times were longest in response to melanopsin‐directed lights. Next, we asked whether the afferent photoreceptor input and decision certainty, controlled by priming the observer's a priori expectation, interact to drive the TEPD. Signal detection analysis showed that by fixing the predecision certainty (bias), the phasic arousal and TEPD amplitude vary with observer criterion (c′) and sensitivity (d′) but not with preferential activation of melanopsin. The signature feature of the melanopsin response during attention was a biphasic TEPD. We conclude that active covert attention can be modulated by visual information mediated via ipRGCs, but that phasic arousal responses marked using the TEPD are not increased by higher levels of melanopsin activation. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-04-07 2022-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9324975/ /pubmed/35357050 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15659 Text en © 2022 The Authors. European Journal of Neuroscience published by Federation of European Neuroscience Societies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Systems Neuroscience Gnyawali, Subodh Feigl, Beatrix Adhikari, Prakash Zele, Andrew J. The role of melanopsin photoreception on visual attention linked pupil responses |
title | The role of melanopsin photoreception on visual attention linked pupil responses |
title_full | The role of melanopsin photoreception on visual attention linked pupil responses |
title_fullStr | The role of melanopsin photoreception on visual attention linked pupil responses |
title_full_unstemmed | The role of melanopsin photoreception on visual attention linked pupil responses |
title_short | The role of melanopsin photoreception on visual attention linked pupil responses |
title_sort | role of melanopsin photoreception on visual attention linked pupil responses |
topic | Systems Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9324975/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35357050 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15659 |
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