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Neural Selectivity for Visual Motion in Macaque Area V3A.

Nardin Nakhla, Yavar Korkian, Matthew R Krause, Christopher C Pack

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Article in eNeuro. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Characterizing Spatiotemporal Population Receptive Fields in Human Visual Cortex with fMRI.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  10. Resolving visual motion through perceptual gaps.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nardin NakhlaMontreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4, Canada nardin.nakhla@mail.mcgill.ca.
Yavar KorkianMontreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4, Canada.
Matthew R KrauseMontreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4, Canada.
Christopher C PackMontreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4, Canada.
McGill University · CAMontreal Neurological Institute and Hospital · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The processing of visual motion is conducted by dedicated pathways in the primate brain. These pathways originate with populations of direction-selective neurons in the primary visual cortex, which projects to dorsal structures like the middle temporal (MT) and medial superior temporal (MST) areas. Anatomical and imaging studies have suggested that area V3A might also be specialized for motion processing, but there have been very few studies of single-neuron direction selectivity in this area. We have therefore performed electrophysiological recordings from V3A neurons in two macaque monkeys (one male and one female) and measured responses to a large battery of motion stimuli that includes translation motion, as well as more complex optic flow patterns. For comparison, we simultaneously recorded the responses of MT neurons to the same stimuli. Surprisingly, we find that overall levels of direction selectivity are similar in V3A and MT and moreover that the population of V3A neurons exhibits somewhat greater selectivity for optic flow patterns. These results suggest that V3A should be considered as part of the motion processing machinery of the visual cortex, in both human and non-human primates.

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Motion PerceptionVisual CortexAnimalsFemaleMacacaMaleMotionPhotic StimulationTemporal LobeVisual Pathwayselectrophysiologymacaque monkeyV3Avisual dorsal pathwayvisual motion

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PMID33303620
PMCPMC7814481
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