Shape encoding consistency across colors in primate V4
Autor: | Brittany N. Bushnell, Anitha Pasupathy |
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Rok vydání: | 2012 |
Předmět: |
Visual perception
genetic structures Physiology Color vision Statistics as Topic Biophysics Stimulus (physiology) Visual system Correlation Contrast Sensitivity medicine Reaction Time Animals Visual Pathways Visual Cortex Neurons Communication Analysis of Variance business.industry General Neuroscience Articles Macaca mulatta medicine.anatomical_structure Visual cortex Pattern Recognition Visual Receptive field Neuron Psychology business Neuroscience Color Perception Photic Stimulation |
Zdroj: | Journal of neurophysiology. 108(5) |
ISSN: | 1522-1598 |
Popis: | Neurons in primate cortical area V4 are sensitive to the form and color of visual stimuli. To determine whether form selectivity remains consistent across colors, we studied the responses of single V4 neurons in awake monkeys to a set of two-dimensional shapes presented in two different colors. For each neuron, we chose two colors that were visually distinct and that evoked reliable and different responses. Across neurons, the correlation coefficient between responses in the two colors ranged from −0.03 to 0.93 (median 0.54). Neurons with highly consistent shape responses, i.e., high correlation coefficients, showed greater dispersion in their responses to the different shapes, i.e., greater shape selectivity, and also tended to have less eccentric receptive field locations; among shape-selective neurons, shape consistency ranged from 0.16 to 0.93 (median 0.63). Consistency of shape responses was independent of the physical difference between the stimulus colors used and the strength of neuronal color tuning. Finally, we found that our measurement of shape response consistency was strongly influenced by the number of stimulus repeats: consistency estimates based on fewer than 10 repeats were substantially underestimated. In conclusion, our results suggest that neurons that are likely to contribute to shape perception and discrimination exhibit shape responses that are largely consistent across colors, facilitating the use of simpler algorithms for decoding shape information from V4 neuronal populations. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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