The human visual cortex response to melanopsin-directed stimulation is accompanied by a distinct perceptual experience.

Abstract:

:The photopigment melanopsin supports reflexive visual functions in people, such as pupil constriction and circadian photoentrainment. What contribution melanopsin makes to conscious visual perception is less studied. We devised a stimulus that targeted melanopsin separately from the cones using pulsed (3-s) spectral modulations around a photopic background. Pupillometry confirmed that the melanopsin stimulus evokes a response different from that produced by cone stimulation. In each of four subjects, a functional MRI response in area V1 was found. This response scaled with melanopic contrast and was not easily explained by imprecision in the silencing of the cones. Twenty additional subjects then observed melanopsin pulses and provided a structured rating of the perceptual experience. Melanopsin stimulation was described as an unpleasant, blurry, minimal brightening that quickly faded. We conclude that isolated stimulation of melanopsin is likely associated with a response within the cortical visual pathway and with an evoked conscious percept.

authors

Spitschan M,Bock AS,Ryan J,Frazzetta G,Brainard DH,Aguirre GK

doi

10.1073/pnas.1711522114

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-11-14 00:00:00

pages

12291-12296

issue

46

eissn

0027-8424

issn

1091-6490

pii

1711522114

journal_volume

114

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