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ArticleNeuron2025

Grouping signals in primate visual cortex.

Tom P Franken, John H Reynolds

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Article in Neuron, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  2. Natural scene segmentation dynamics reveal iterative Bayesian inference.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Tom P FrankenSystems Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. Electronic address: ftom@wustl.edu.
John H ReynoldsSystems Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.

Funding

Border ownership and grouping in primate visual cortexR00EY031795 · NEI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI FRANKEN, TOM P. · 2022 to 2024
$747k
Exploring How Scene Segmentation Circuits Aid in Predicting Future Visual InputR21EY036566 · NEI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI FRANKEN, TOM P. · 2024 to 2025
$428k
Border ownership and grouping in primate visual cortexK99EY031795 · NEI · SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES · PI FRANKEN, TOM P. · 2020 to 2021
$220k
NEI NIH HHS K99 EY031795NEI NIH HHS R00 EY031795NEI NIH HHS R21 EY036566
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Our understanding of scenes as organized collections of objects is remarkably stable despite eye movements. This may be due, in part, to neurons in area V2 that signal which side of a border is foreground (border ownership [BOS]) for hundreds of milliseconds after the defining information is deleted, and this signal transfers with eye movements. The grouping model explains this through a hypothetical short-latency grouping signal downstream. This would be a persistent pattern of preferred ownership toward the center of the receptive field, which also occurs de novo after eye movements. Our recordings identify such a grouping signal in macaque V4, which occurs fast enough to underlie BOS in V2. These V4 neurons are not as strongly tuned for contrast polarity as are BOS neurons. This suggests a division of labor in which grouping signals provide spatiotemporal continuity of segmented surfaces, whereas BOS neurons link this with feature information.

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Eye MovementsNeuronsPattern Recognition, VisualVisual CortexVisual PerceptionAction PotentialsAnimalsMacaca mulattaPhotic StimulationVisual Pathwaysarea V2area V4border ownershipfeedbackgrouping cellhysteresisluminance contrastsaccadescene segmentationshort-term memory

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PMID40460828
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