More is not always better: adaptive gain control explains dissociation between perception and action

Autor: Pascal Mamassian, Claudio Simoncini, Laurent Perrinet, Anna Montagnini, Guillaume S. Masson
Přispěvatelé: Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone (INT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de neurosciences cognitives de la méditerranée - UMR 6193 (INCM), Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire des systèmes perceptifs (LSP), Département d'Etudes Cognitives - ENS Paris (DEC), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Nature Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience, 2012, 15 (11), pp.1596-1603. ⟨10.1038/nn.3229⟩
Nature Neuroscience, Nature Publishing Group, 2012, 15 (11), pp.1596-1603. ⟨10.1038/nn.3229⟩
ISSN: 1097-6256
1546-1726
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3229⟩
Popis: Moving objects generate motion information at different scales, which are processed in the visual system with a bank of spatiotemporal frequency channels. It is not known how the brain pools this information to reconstruct object speed and whether this pooling is generic or adaptive; that is, dependent on the behavioral task. We used rich textured motion stimuli of varying bandwidths to decipher how the human visual motion system computes object speed in different behavioral contexts. We found that, although a simple visuomotor behavior such as short-latency ocular following responses takes advantage of the full distribution of motion signals, perceptual speed discrimination is impaired for stimuli with large bandwidths. Such opposite dependencies can be explained by an adaptive gain control mechanism in which the divisive normalization pool is adjusted to meet the different constraints of perception and action.
Databáze: OpenAIRE