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. 2022 Oct 22;13:6302. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-33580-7

Fig. 3. Facial valence modulation specific to superficial layers of V1.

Fig. 3

a Three input pathways to V1 have distinct laminar profiles: LGN afferents terminate in the middle layer (M)111,112, cortico-cortical afferents, such as from FFA, terminate in superficial and deep layers (S and D)15, and amygdala afferents terminate exclusively in the superficial layer (S)15,16. AMG, amygdala; FFA, fusiform face area; LGN, lateral geniculate nucleus. b Axial slice of a T1-weighted anatomical image generated from VASO timeseries23. Light blue line corresponds to the field of view shown in ce. c Response amplitude to face stimuli measured with BOLD (top) and VASO (bottom). Green arrows in the BOLD image indicate high-amplitude responses in veins. d Phase (timing) of the best-fitting sinusoid. BOLD and VASO are known to have opposite signed responses23, as indicated by the 180 deg shift in response phase. e Central V1 ROI was defined in each participant based on retinotopic analysis34 and constrained by the white matter (WM; cyan) and CSF (yellow) boundaries (top). Between the WM and CSF boundaries, 21 cortical depths were generated with LAYNII109 (bottom). f Percent change in VASO (ml per 100 ml CBV) to all faces (pooled across three expressions) as a function of relative cortical depth between WM (left) and CSF (right). The black line shows the fitted average across depth, while the shaded band indicates the uncertainty range of one standard error. g Posterior distribution of fearful – neutral VASO responses as a function of cortical depth. h Posterior distribution of happy – neutral VASO responses as a function of cortical depth. g, h Hue indicates the strength of statistical evidence according to the BML model105, shown through P+, the posterior probability of the valence effect at each cortical depth being positive. The vertical green line indicates zero effect. The extent to which the green line is closer to the tail of the posterior distribution indicates stronger valence effect. fg Number of unique participants scanned at 7T VASO: n = 10 (15 scan sessions, see Table 1). Source data are provided as a Source Data file.