Peer Review History
| Original SubmissionMay 18, 2020 |
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PONE-D-20-14792 The gamma response to colour hue in humans: evidence from MEG PLOS ONE Dear Dr. Perry, thank you for submitting your manuscript to PLOS ONE. After careful consideration and based on the comments of two experts in the field, we feel that it has merit but does not fully meet PLOS ONE’s publication criteria as it currently stands. Therefore, we invite you to submit a revised version of the manuscript that addresses the points raised during the review process. ============================== While revising the manuscript, please respond to the Reviewers's comments in a point-by-point manner and make sure to specifically and thoroughly address the technical and statistical aspects of your work (including Figures) as mentioned by both Reviewers. Please also improve the description of Experiment 2. ============================== Please submit your revised manuscript within six months from this date as otherwise a revision has to be considered a new submission. If you will need more time than this to complete your revisions, please reply to this message or contact the journal office at plosone@plos.org. When you're ready to submit your revision, log on to https://www.editorialmanager.com/pone/ and select the 'Submissions Needing Revision' folder to locate your manuscript file. Please include the following items when submitting your revised manuscript:
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Is the manuscript technically sound, and do the data support the conclusions? The manuscript must describe a technically sound piece of scientific research with data that supports the conclusions. Experiments must have been conducted rigorously, with appropriate controls, replication, and sample sizes. The conclusions must be drawn appropriately based on the data presented. Reviewer #1: Yes Reviewer #2: Partly ********** 2. Has the statistical analysis been performed appropriately and rigorously? Reviewer #1: Yes Reviewer #2: No ********** 3. Have the authors made all data underlying the findings in their manuscript fully available? The PLOS Data policy requires authors to make all data underlying the findings described in their manuscript fully available without restriction, with rare exception (please refer to the Data Availability Statement in the manuscript PDF file). The data should be provided as part of the manuscript or its supporting information, or deposited to a public repository. For example, in addition to summary statistics, the data points behind means, medians and variance measures should be available. If there are restrictions on publicly sharing data—e.g. participant privacy or use of data from a third party—those must be specified. Reviewer #1: Yes Reviewer #2: Yes ********** 4. Is the manuscript presented in an intelligible fashion and written in standard English? PLOS ONE does not copyedit accepted manuscripts, so the language in submitted articles must be clear, correct, and unambiguous. Any typographical or grammatical errors should be corrected at revision, so please note any specific errors here. Reviewer #1: Yes Reviewer #2: Yes ********** 5. Review Comments to the Author Please use the space provided to explain your answers to the questions above. You may also include additional comments for the author, including concerns about dual publication, research ethics, or publication ethics. (Please upload your review as an attachment if it exceeds 20,000 characters) Reviewer #1: The study of Perry et al is devoted to the MEG gamma responses induced by color hues. The recent invasive studies in animals and intracranial studies in humans have shown that homogeneous color surfaces induce gamma oscillations in visual cortex. This study is the first one that shows that the similar gamma responses can be recorded noninvasively in humans using MEG. The authors also investigated how the gamma response to the hue change is affected by chromatic separation between the colors (in perceptual color space). They confirmed the previously shown ‘preference’ for the red hue. They also described different gamma frequency components induced in MEG by hues. This is an interesting and useful study. I think that the methods and results are clear. I only have minor comments and suggestions. 1. Please, describe what software has been used for the source localization analysis. 2. Line 199. What is the ‘approximate area of medial occipital cortex’? Please provide more information. 3. It might worth to show the ‘color separations’ used in the 2nd experiment in a figure similar to Fig.6. 4. The ‘red’ color in the low separation condition is not really red, but rather orange. Could it be better to use the word ‘reddish’, ‘bluish’. …? 5. It took me some time to understand the design of the 2nd experiment. To the convenience of the lazy reader, I would suggest to insert a color line that illustrates the sequence of color stimuli above each panel of the Figure 7. 6. In the figure 9 I would suggest to change ‘Red’ to ‘Red-after-Blue’, ‘Red-after-Green’, etc. to improve readability of the figure. 7. Do you have an idea why the offset of the red hue promotes gamma response to the green and blue hues? This worths mentioning in the Discussion section. 8. Figure 5. A) Traces show one second of unfiltered data (centred on stimulus onset) from a single occipital sensor (MRO42) from each of the 35 trials of red visual stimulation from the first block of the experiment. It is unclear what ‘from each of the 35 trials’ refers to. It looks like the left panel (A) shows only one epoch… B) Please provide units for the scale. 9. Line 404. …. we found in Experiment 1 that the frequency of the gamma response was reduced for the green stimulus compared to the other hues,… The frequency of the gamma peak for the green hue does not seem to be reduced (Fig. 3). The ‘low gamma’ for the green seems have even higher frequency than that for other hues. Reviewer #2: Perry and colleagues utilized MEG measurements in human subjects to study the influence of stimulus color on visual gamma activity. In their first experiment, the authors show color effects consistent with recent monkey and human studies – i.e. gamma responses occur to uniform color stimuli, which were maximal red stimuli. In the second experiment, the authors employed three primary colors at two different chromatic distances to evaluate the impact of the preceding color presentation on the recorded response. The authors report that the chromatic separation between pairs of stimuli has an effect on the gamma response, although this effect is not equal across different color-pairs, showing a bias for pairs of colors involving red. This latter result is interesting and in line with evidence that the bias for red color can be partially related to adaptation effects although there is more to be addressed for understanding the origin of such a bias. Overall, the manuscript provides an important follow up to recent work and will be of interest to many. Below I highlight a few points of improvement related to the quantification and presentation of findings. Major comments: -Overall the quantification of observed effects could be improved. Results for experiment 1 seem to be mostly reported in Figure plots with modest statistical reporting. For example, what were the specific mean responses to each color? Saying post-hoc tests satisfied a corrected p-value is limited, provide the test statistic and related mean values. -Artifact rejection is mentioned, but some details would be helpful. i.e. what was the criterion of rejection and how much data was excluded based on these steps? I have a few comments regarding figures: -As this is an experiment focusing on vision, a task figure showing the stimuli is necessary. A basic schematic of the stimuli and experimental design for both experiments should be shown. -While spectrograms are show, it would be helpful to show one plot of the band limited time course for gamma ranges studied – providing a more accurate view of the amplitude response over time. -Related to this, did the authors observe any color related effects in event related field potential? (prior work has reported a chromatic visual evoked potential). -All figures should have both axis labels and units (e.g. color bars should have labels that provide the variable and its unit type). Discussion: -In the discussion, the authors correctly mention some differences in the magnitude of color responses across prior studies – highlighting the likely attenuation produced by more macroscopic measurements. However, given the striking similarities across other experimental tasks (e.g. that intracortical and surface recordings both show no gamma oscillations below ~10-15% grating contrast, suggesting similar measurement sensitivity), it seems that stimulus selection plays an equal role. As acknowledged by the authors elsewhere, it seems important to highlight how color selection, and in particular its saturation, may account for differences between studies/species. ********** 6. PLOS authors have the option to publish the peer review history of their article (what does this mean?). If published, this will include your full peer review and any attached files. If you choose “no”, your identity will remain anonymous but your review may still be made public. Do you want your identity to be public for this peer review? For information about this choice, including consent withdrawal, please see our Privacy Policy. 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The gamma response to colour hue in humans: evidence from MEG PONE-D-20-14792R1 Dear Dr. Perry, I am pleased to inform you that your manuscript has now been judged scientifically suitable for publication and will be formally accepted for publication once it meets all outstanding technical requirements. Within one week, you’ll receive an e-mail detailing the required amendments. When these have been addressed, you’ll receive a formal acceptance letter and your manuscript will be scheduled for publication. An invoice for payment will follow shortly after the formal acceptance. To ensure an efficient process, please log into Editorial Manager at http://www.editorialmanager.com/pone/, click the 'Update My Information' link at the top of the page, and double check that your user information is up-to-date. If you have any billing related questions, please contact our Author Billing department directly at authorbilling@plos.org. 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Reviewer #1: Yes Reviewer #2: Yes ********** 4. Have the authors made all data underlying the findings in their manuscript fully available? The PLOS Data policy requires authors to make all data underlying the findings described in their manuscript fully available without restriction, with rare exception (please refer to the Data Availability Statement in the manuscript PDF file). The data should be provided as part of the manuscript or its supporting information, or deposited to a public repository. For example, in addition to summary statistics, the data points behind means, medians and variance measures should be available. If there are restrictions on publicly sharing data—e.g. participant privacy or use of data from a third party—those must be specified. Reviewer #1: Yes Reviewer #2: Yes ********** 5. Is the manuscript presented in an intelligible fashion and written in standard English? PLOS ONE does not copyedit accepted manuscripts, so the language in submitted articles must be clear, correct, and unambiguous. Any typographical or grammatical errors should be corrected at revision, so please note any specific errors here. Reviewer #1: Yes Reviewer #2: Yes ********** 6. Review Comments to the Author Please use the space provided to explain your answers to the questions above. You may also include additional comments for the author, including concerns about dual publication, research ethics, or publication ethics. (Please upload your review as an attachment if it exceeds 20,000 characters) Reviewer #1: All my questions and comments were addressed. I recommend accepting the manuscript for publication. Reviewer #2: The authors have provided a clear response to prior comments, which I believe will improve the clarity of results for future readers. These findings provide an important non-invasive replication of observations made in humans and non-human primates, making an important contribution to the literature. I have no further comments. ********** 7. PLOS authors have the option to publish the peer review history of their article (what does this mean?). If published, this will include your full peer review and any attached files. If you choose “no”, your identity will remain anonymous but your review may still be made public. Do you want your identity to be public for this peer review? For information about this choice, including consent withdrawal, please see our Privacy Policy. Reviewer #1: No Reviewer #2: No |
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PONE-D-20-14792R1 The gamma response to colour hue in humans: evidence from MEG Dear Dr. Perry: I'm pleased to inform you that your manuscript has been deemed suitable for publication in PLOS ONE. Congratulations! Your manuscript is now with our production department. If your institution or institutions have a press office, please let them know about your upcoming paper now to help maximize its impact. If they'll be preparing press materials, please inform our press team within the next 48 hours. Your manuscript will remain under strict press embargo until 2 pm Eastern Time on the date of publication. For more information please contact onepress@plos.org. If we can help with anything else, please email us at plosone@plos.org. Thank you for submitting your work to PLOS ONE and supporting open access. Kind regards, PLOS ONE Editorial Office Staff on behalf of Dr. Alexander N. Sokolov Academic Editor PLOS ONE |
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