"For example, visual clutter in one location would drive information in a particular layer of the primary visual cortex to a lesser extent than clutter in another location," said Monika Jadi ...

Xize Xu, Mitchell P. Morton, Sachira Denagamage, Nyomi V. Hudson, Anirvan S. Nandy, Monika P. Jadi. Spatial context non-uniformly modulates inter-laminar information flow in the primary visual cortex.

In the case of visual perception, researchers say, the location of visual clutter didn’t change the order of the phone tree, but it did change how well the message was relayed person to person.

Right, virtual visual flow speed (a) and running speed (b) tuning curves for example boutons. Lines above tuning curves indicate significant bins (see Online Methods).