Engagement of visual fixation suppresses sensory responsiveness and multisensory integration in the primate superior colliculus
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Neurons in the intermediate and deep layers of the superior colliculus (SC) often exhibit sensory-related activity in addition to discharging for saccadic eye movements. These two patterns of activity can combine so that modifications of the sensory response can lead to changes in orienting behaviour. Can behavioural factors, however, influence sensory activity? In this study of rhesus monkeys, we isolate one behavioural factor, the state of visual fixation, and examine its influences on sensory processing and multisensory integration in the primate SC. Two interleaved fixation conditions were used: a FIX condition requiring exogenous fixation of a visible fixation point; and a FIX-BLINK condition, requiring endogenous fixation in the absence of a visible fixation point. Neurons of the SC were influenced by fixation state, exhibiting both lower levels of sensory activity and reduced multisensory interactions when fixation was exogenously engaged on a visible fixation point. These results are consistent with active visual fixation suppressing responses to extraneous stimuli, and thus demonstrate that sensory processing and multisensory responses in the SC are not dependent solely on the physical properties of the sensory environment, but are also dynamically influenced by the behavioural state of the animal.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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