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ReviewAnnual review of vision science2020

Visual Functions of Primate Area V4.

Anitha Pasupathy, Dina V Popovkina, Taekjun Kim

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Review in Annual review of vision science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
47citing papers in PubMed
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed, 87 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Loss of neuronal population organization links pathology to behavior in a model of Alzheimer's disease.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  4. Curvature tuning in areas V2 and V4 of the developing macaque.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  7. Functional Clusters for Shape, Texture, and Motion Encoding in Macaque V2.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  10. A TALE OF TWO TAILS: PREFERRED AND ANTI-PREFERRED NATURAL STIMULI IN VISUAL CORTEX.... International Conference on Learning Representations · 2026
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  16. Human V4 size predicts crowding distance.Nature communications · 2025
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  17. Responses of neurons in macaque V4 to object and texture images.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  18. High-Density Recording Reveals Sparse Clusters (But Not Columns) for Shape and Texture Encoding in Macaque V4.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anitha PasupathyDepartment of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA; email: pasupat@uw.edu, taekjun@uw.edu.
Dina V PopovkinaDepartment of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105, USA; email: dina4@uw.edu.
Taekjun KimDepartment of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA; email: pasupat@uw.edu, taekjun@uw.edu.
University of Washington · US

Funding

Washington National Primate Research CenterP51OD010425 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Mari Ostendorf · 2012 to 2026
$201.8M
YILMA SIV VACCINIA VACCINE TRIALP51RR000166 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI BAILLIE, THOMAS ALLAN · 1985 to 2011
$161.1M
The role of area V4 in the perception and recognition of visual objectsR01EY018839 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Anitha Pasupathy · 2009 to 2026
$9.0M
VISUAL SCIENCES TRAINING PROGRAMT32EY007031 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Wyeth Daniel Bair, Anitha Pasupathy · 1985 to 2026
$6.1M
CRCNS: Joint coding of shape and texture in the primate brianR01EY029997 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI PASUPATHY, ANITHA · 2018 to 2020
$724k
NCRR NIH HHS P51 RR000166NEI NIH HHS R01 EY018839NEI NIH HHS R01 EY029997NEI NIH HHS T32 EY007031NIH HHS P51 OD010425
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Area V4-the focus of this review-is a mid-level processing stage along the ventral visual pathway of the macaque monkey. V4 is extensively interconnected with other visual cortical areas along the ventral and dorsal visual streams, with frontal cortical areas, and with several subcortical structures. Thus, it is well poised to play a broad and integrative role in visual perception and recognition-the functional domain of the ventral pathway. Neurophysiological studies in monkeys engaged in passive fixation and behavioral tasks suggest that V4 responses are dictated by tuning in a high-dimensional stimulus space defined by form, texture, color, depth, and other attributes of visual stimuli. This high-dimensional tuning may underlie the development of object-based representations in the visual cortex that are critical for tracking, recognizing, and interacting with objects. Neurophysiological and lesion studies also suggest that V4 responses are important for guiding perceptual decisions and higher-order behavior.

Indexed as

AnimalsForm PerceptionHumansMacaca mulattaPattern Recognition, VisualVisual CortexVisual PathwaysVisual Perceptiongoal-oriented representationmacaque area V4object recognitionshape perceptiontexture perception

Identifiers

PMID32580663
PMCPMC7501212
OpenAlexW3037936343

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