Truly dorsal: nonlinear integration of motion signals is required to account for the responses of pattern cells in rat visual cortex

G Matteucci, RB Marotti, B Zattera, D Zoccolan - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
The defining feature of advanced motion processing in the primate dorsal stream is the
existence of pattern cells–specialized cortical neurons that integrate local motion signals …

Truly pattern: Nonlinear integration of motion signals is required to account for the responses of pattern cells in rat visual cortex

G Matteucci, R Bellacosa Marotti, B Zattera… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
A key feature of advanced motion processing in the primate dorsal stream is the existence of
pattern cells—specialized cortical neurons that integrate local motion signals into pattern …

Circuit mechanisms governing local vs. global motion processing in mouse visual cortex

R Rasmussen, K Yonehara - Frontiers in neural circuits, 2017 - frontiersin.org
A withstanding question in neuroscience is how neural circuits encode representations and
perceptions of the external world. A particularly well-defined visual computation is the …

Pattern motion direction is encoded in the population activity of macaque area MT

C Quaia, I Kang, BG Cumming - Journal of Neuroscience, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
Direction selective neurons in macaque primary visual cortex are narrowly tuned for
orientation, and are thus afflicted by the aperture problem. At the next stage of motion …

Pattern motion selectivity of spiking outputs and local field potentials in macaque visual cortex

FA Khawaja, JMG Tsui, CC Pack - Journal of Neuroscience, 2009 - Soc Neuroscience
The dorsal pathway of the primate visual cortex is involved in the processing of motion
signals that are useful for perception and behavior. Along this pathway, motion information is …

Pattern motion processing by MT neurons

P Zarei Eskikand, T Kameneva, AN Burkitt… - Frontiers in Neural …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Based on stimulation with plaid patterns, neurons in the Middle Temporal (MT) area of
primate visual cortex are divided into two types: pattern and component cells. The prevailing …

Pattern and component responses of primate MT neurons recorded with multi-contact electrodes, stimulated with 1D and 2D noise patterns

C Quaia, I Kang, BG Cumming - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Direction selective neurons in primary visual cortex (area V1) are affected by the aperture
problem, ie, they are only sensitive to motion orthogonal to their preferred orientation. A …

Dissociation in neuronal encoding of object versus surface motion in the primate brain

A Bigelow, T Kim, T Namima, W Bair, A Pasupathy - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
A paradox exists in our understanding of motion processing in the primate visual system:
neurons in the dorsal motion processing stream often strikingly fail to encode long-range …

Shape representations in the primate dorsal visual stream

T Theys, MC Romero, J van Loon… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The primate visual system extracts object shape information for object recognition in the
ventral visual stream. Recent research has demonstrated that object shape is also …

Speed tuning in the macaque posterior parietal cortex

E Avila, KJ Lakshminarasimhan, GC DeAngelis… - bioRxiv, 2017 - biorxiv.org
Neurons in the macaque posterior parietal cortex are known to encode the direction of self-
motion. But do they also encode one's speed? To test this, we performed neural recordings …