September 2021
Volume 21, Issue 9
Open Access
Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting Abstract  |   September 2021
Representational similarity analysis of 7T fMRI data suggests disorganized contour processing in psychosis
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • Rohit S. Kamath
    University of Minnesota
  • Kimberly B. Weldon
    University of Minnesota
  • Hannah R. Moser
    University of Minnesota
  • Philip C. Burton
    University of Minnesota
  • Scott R. Sponheim
    Minneapolis VA Medical Center
    University of Minnesota
  • Cheryl A. Olman
    University of Minnesota
  • Michael-Paul Schallmo
    University of Minnesota
  • Footnotes
    Acknowledgements  U01 MH108150, K01 MH120278, P41 EB015894, P30 NS076408, UL1 TR002494
Journal of Vision September 2021, Vol.21, 2055. doi:https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.21.9.2055
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      Rohit S. Kamath, Kimberly B. Weldon, Hannah R. Moser, Philip C. Burton, Scott R. Sponheim, Cheryl A. Olman, Michael-Paul Schallmo; Representational similarity analysis of 7T fMRI data suggests disorganized contour processing in psychosis. Journal of Vision 2021;21(9):2055. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.21.9.2055.

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Abstract

Contour integration, the process of joining spatially separated elements into a single unified edge, has consistently been found to be impaired in schizophrenia. Whether contour integration is impaired among patients with psychosis more broadly remains unclear. We examined a transdiagnostic sample of 34 participants with psychosis, 24 first degree biological relatives without psychosis, and 24 healthy controls with no family history as a part of the Psychosis Human Connectome Project. We used 7 tesla functional MRI (fMRI) to measure responses across visual regions-of-interest (ROIs), including primary visual cortex (V1), lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), and lateral occipital complex (LOC), during a contour integration task. Across all participants, univariate V1 fMRI responses were lower for aligned versus scrambled contours, consistent with previous studies of predictive coding. Participants with psychosis had stronger fMRI responses in LOC for contours presented within a field of background elements, also consistent with prior studies. We performed a representational similarity analysis (Kriegeskorte, 2008) to quantify patterns of responses across voxels within ROIs in individual subjects. Across V1 and LOC, similarity was highest for task conditions with the same configuration of background elements, indicating that the presence or absence of background elements had a strong effect on the fMRI response patterns in these regions. Additionally, in both V1 and LOC, highest similarity was seen between task conditions with a discernible contour. Patients with psychosis showed lower similarity in V1 between same-background conditions, as compared to healthy controls, consistent with disorganized contour processing among patients. Our results are consistent with prior findings of impaired contour integration in schizophrenia, and suggest abnormalities in the multivariate pattern of neural responses in early visual cortex among patients with psychosis.

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