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Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 7, 3378-3415, Copyright © 1987 by Society for Neuroscience
Segregation of form, color, and stereopsis in primate area 18
DH Hubel and MS Livingstone
Department of Animal Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
Primate visual cortical area 18 (visual area 2), when stained for the
enzyme cytochrome oxidase, shows a pattern of alternating dark and light
stripes; in squirrel monkeys, the dark stripes are clearly of 2 alternating
types, thick and thin. We have recorded from these 3 subdivisions in
macaques and squirrel monkeys, and find that each has distinctive
physiological properties: (1) Cells in one set of dark stripes, in squirrel
monkeys the thin stripes, are not orientation- selective; a high proportion
show color-opponency. (2) Cells in the other set of dark stripes (thick
stripes) are orientation-selective; most of them are also selective for
binocular disparity, suggesting that they are concerned with stereoscopic
depth. (3) Cells in the pale stripes are also orientation-selective and
more than half of them are end-stopped. Each of the 3 subdivisions receives
a different input from area 17: the thin stripes from the blobs, the pale
stripes from the interblobs, the thick stripes from layer 4B. The pale
stripes are thus part of the parvocellular system, and the thick stripes
part of the magnocellular system. The physiological properties of the cells
in the thin and pale stripes reflect the properties of their antecedent
cells in 17, but nevertheless exhibit differences that suggest the kinds of
processing that might occur at this stage.
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