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ArticleCurrent biology : CB2023

A role for ocular dominance in binocular integration.

Blake A Mitchell, Brock M Carlson, Jacob A Westerberg, Michele A Cox, Alexander Maier

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Article in Current biology : CB, 2023. 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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Blake A MitchellDepartment of Psychology, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA.
Brock M CarlsonDepartment of Psychology, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA.
Jacob A WesterbergDepartment of Psychology, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA.
Michele A CoxCenter for Visual Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA.
Alexander MaierDepartment of Psychology, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA. Electronic address: alex.maier@vanderbilt.edu.

Funding

Training in Vision ResearchT32EY007135 · NEI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI GEOFFREY F WOODMAN · 1994 to 2026
$5.8M
Binocular integration in the primate lateral geniculate nucleusR01EY027402 · NEI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI MAIER, ALEXANDER VINZENZ · 2017 to 2021
$1.9M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY027402NEI NIH HHS T32 EY007135
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurons in the primate primary visual cortex (V1) combine left- and right-eye information to form a binocular output. Controversy surrounds whether ocular dominance, the preference of these neurons for one eye over the other, is functionally relevant. Here, we demonstrate that ocular dominance impacts gain control during binocular combination. We recorded V1 spiking activity while monkeys passively viewed grating stimuli. Gratings were either presented to one eye (monocular), both eyes with the same contrasts (binocular balanced), or both eyes with different contrasts (binocular imbalanced). We found that contrast placed in a neuron's dominant eye was weighted more strongly than contrast placed in a neuron's non-dominant eye. This asymmetry covaried with neurons' ocular dominance. We then tested whether accounting for ocular dominance within divisive normalization improves the fit to neural data. We found that ocular dominance significantly improved model performance, with interocular normalization providing the best fits. These findings suggest that V1 ocular dominance is relevant for response normalization during binocular stimulation.

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Dominance, OcularVisual CortexAnimalsEyePhotic StimulationVision, Binocularbinocular combinationcontrastdichoptic response asymmetrynormalizationocular dominanceprimary visual cortexV1

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PMID37657450
PMCPMC10530424

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