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The Journal of Neuroscience, June 15, 1999, 19(12):5074-5084
Spatial Summation in the Receptive Fields of MT Neurons
Kenneth H. Britten1, 2 and Hilary W. Heuer1 1 Center for Neuroscience and 2 Section of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, University of California Davis, Davis, California 95616
Receptive fields (RFs) of cells in the middle temporal area (MT or V5) of monkeys will often encompass multiple objects under normal image viewing. We therefore have studied how multiple moving stimuli interact when presented within and near the RF of single MT cells. We used moving Gabor function stimuli, <1° in spatial extent and ~100 msec in duration, presented on a grid of possible locations over the RF of the cell. Responses to these stimuli were typically robust, and their small spatial and temporal extent allowed detailed mapping of RFs and of interactions between stimuli. The responses to pairs of such stimuli were compared against the responses to the same stimuli presented singly. The responses were substantially less than the sum of the responses to the component stimuli and were well described by a power-law summation model with divisive inhibition. Such divisive inhibition is a key component of recently proposed "normalization" models of cortical physiology and is presumed to arise from lateral interconnections within a region. One open question is whether the normalization occurs only once in primary visual cortex or multiple times in different cortical areas. We addressed this question by exploring the spatial extent over which one stimulus would divide the response to another and found effective normalization from stimuli quite far removed from the RF center. This supports models under which normalization occurs both in MT and in earlier stages.
Key words: normalization; divisive inhibition; visual motion; dorsal pathway; directional selectivity; motion models; reverse correlation; hierarchy
Copyright © 1999 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/99/19125074-11$05.00/0
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