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The Journal of Neuroscience, July 15, 2000, 20(14):5552-5563

Visual Responses of Neurons in the Middle Temporal Area of New World Monkeys after Lesions of Striate Cortex

Marcello G. P. Rosa1, 2, Rowan Tweedale1, and Guy N. Elston1

1 Vision, Touch, and Hearing Research Centre, The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Australia, and 2 Department of Physiology, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia

In primates, lesions of striate cortex (V1) result in scotomas in which only rudimentary visual abilities remain. These aspects of vision that survive V1 lesions have been attributed to direct thalamic pathways to extrastriate areas, including the middle temporal area (MT). However, studies in New World monkeys and humans have questioned this interpretation, suggesting that remnants of V1 are responsible for both the activation of MT and residual vision. We studied the visual responses of neurons in area MT in New World marmoset monkeys in the weeks after lesions of V1. The extent of the scotoma in each case was estimated by mapping the receptive fields of cells located near the lesion border and by histological reconstruction. Two response types were observed among the cells located in the part of MT that corresponds, in visuotopic coordinates, to the lesioned part of V1. Many neurons (62%) had receptive fields that were displaced relative to their expected location, so that they represented the visual field immediately surrounding the scotoma. This may be a consequence of a process analogous to the reorganization of the V1 map after retinal lesions. However, another 20% of the cells had receptive fields centered inside the scotoma. Most of these neurons were strongly direction-selective, similar to normal MT cells. These results show that MT cells differ in their responses to lesioning of V1 and that only a subpopulation of MT neurons can be reasonably linked to residual vision and blindsight.

Key words: marmoset; vision; extrastriate; receptive fields; blindsight; scotoma

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