Goddard, E;
Solomon, SG;
Carlson, TA;
(2017)
Dynamic Population Codes of Multiplexed Stimulus Features in Primate Area MT.
Journal of Neurophysiology
, 118
(1)
pp. 203-218.
10.1152/jn.00954.2016.
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Abstract
The middle-temporal area (MT) of primate visual cortex is critical in the analysis of visual motion. Single-unit studies suggest that the response dynamics of neurons within area MT depend on stimulus features, but how these dynamics emerge at the population level, and how feature representations interact, is not clear. Here, we used multivariate classification analysis to study how stimulus features are represented in the spiking activity of populations of neurons in area MT of marmoset monkey. Using Representational Similarity Analysis (RSA) we distinguished the emerging representations of moving grating and dot field stimuli. We show that representations of stimulus orientation, spatial frequency and speed are evident near the onset of the population response, while the representation of stimulus direction is slower to emerge and sustained throughout the stimulus-evoked response. We further found a spatiotemporal asymmetry in the emergence of direction representations. Representations for high spatial frequencies and low temporal frequencies are initially orientation-dependent, while those for high temporal frequencies and low spatial frequencies are more sensitive to motion direction. Our analyses reveal a complex interplay of feature representations in area MT population response that may explain the stimulus-dependent dynamics of motion vision.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Dynamic Population Codes of Multiplexed Stimulus Features in Primate Area MT |
Location: | United States |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1152/jn.00954.2016 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00954.2016 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
Keywords: | direction; marmoset; multivariate pattern classification analysis; representational similarity analysis; visual motion |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Experimental Psychology |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1550195 |
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