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ArticleScience advances2021

A distinct population of heterogeneously color-tuned neurons in macaque visual cortex.

Sunny Nigam, Sorin Pojoga, Valentin Dragoi

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Article in Science advances, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Cognitive Capacities as Functional Natural Kinds.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2024
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  3. Cone-Opponent Ganglion Cells in the Primate Fovea Tuned to Noncardinal Color Directions.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Sunny NigamDepartment of Neurobiology and Anatomy, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1559-5556
Sorin PojogaDepartment of Neurobiology and Anatomy, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5991-6027
Valentin DragoiDepartment of Neurobiology and Anatomy, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA. valentin.dragoi@uth.tmc.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-9526-0926

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Color is a key feature of natural environments that higher mammals routinely use to detect food, avoid predators, and interpret social signals. The distribution of color signals in natural scenes is widely variable, ranging from uniform patches to highly nonuniform regions in which different colors lie in close proximity. Whether individual neurons are tuned to this high degree of variability of color signals is unknown. Here, we identified a distinct population of cells in macaque visual cortex (area V4) that have a heterogeneous receptive field (RF) structure in which individual subfields are tuned to different colors even though the full RF is only weakly tuned. This spatial heterogeneity in color tuning indicates a higher degree of complexity of color-encoding mechanisms in visual cortex than previously believed to efficiently extract chromatic information from the environment.

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MacacaVisual CortexAnimalsColor PerceptionMammalsNeuronsPhotic Stimulation

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PMCPMC7895441

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