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Processing of first-order motion in marmoset visual cortex is influenced by second-order motion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2006

NICK BARRACLOUGH ,
CHRIS TINSLEY ,
BEN WEBB ,
CHRIS VINCENT  and
ANDREW DERRINGTON
NICK BARRACLOUGH
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Hull, East Yorkshire, United Kingdom
CHRIS TINSLEY
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
BEN WEBB
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
CHRIS VINCENT
Affiliation:
The School of Psychology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, United Kingdom
ANDREW DERRINGTON
Affiliation:
The School of Psychology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, United Kingdom
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Abstract

We measured the responses of single neurons in marmoset visual cortex (V1, V2, and the third visual complex) to moving first-order stimuli and to combined first- and second-order stimuli in order to determine whether first-order motion processing was influenced by second-order motion. Beat stimuli were made by summing two gratings of similar spatial frequency, one of which was static and the other was moving. The beat is the product of a moving sinusoidal carrier (first-order motion) and a moving low-frequency contrast envelope (second-order motion). We compared responses to moving first-order gratings alone with responses to beat patterns with first-order and second-order motion in the same direction as each other, or in opposite directions to each other in order to distinguish first-order and second-order direction-selective responses. In the majority (72%, 67/93) of cells (V1 73%, 45/62; V2 70%, 16/23; third visual complex 75%, 6/8), responses to first-order motion were significantly influenced by the addition of a second-order signal. The second-order envelope was more influential when moving in the opposite direction to the first-order stimulus, reducing first-order direction sensitivity in V1, V2, and the third visual complex. We interpret these results as showing that first-order motion processing through early visual cortex is not separate from second-order motion processing; suggesting that both motion signals are processed by the same system.

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PrimatePhysiologyV1LuminanceContrast

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Visual Neuroscience , Volume 23 , Issue 5 , September 2006 , pp. 815 - 824
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2006 Cambridge University Press

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