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The Journal of Neuroscience, February 1, 2000, 20(3):1157-1169

Specificity of Projections from Wide-Field and Local Motion-Processing Regions within the Middle Temporal Visual Area of the Owl Monkey

Vladimir K. Berezovskii and Richard T. Born

Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115-5701

The middle temporal visual area (MT) of the owl monkey is anatomically organized with respect to both preferred direction of motion and different types of center-surround interaction. The latter organization consists of clusters of neurons whose receptive fields have antagonistic surrounds that render them unresponsive to wide-field motion (local motion columns) interdigitated with groups of neurons whose receptive fields have additive surrounds and thus respond best to wide-field motion (wide-field motion columns).

To learn whether the information in these regions remained segregated further along the visual pathways, we made injections of retrograde tracers into two visual areas to which MT projects [the medial superior temporal area (MST) and fundus of the superior temporal sulcus (FST)] and then labeled the wide-field and local organization using 2-deoxyglucose. In complementary experiments, we injected anterograde tracers into regions of MT that we had mapped using microelectrode recordings.

Injections into both dorsal FST and ventral MST labeled clusters of cell bodies in MT that were concentrated within wide-field motion columns, whereas injections into dorsal MST labeled neurons predominantly within local motion columns. Results from the anterograde tracer experiments corroborated these findings. The high degree of specificity in the connections reinforces a model of functional organization for wide-field versus local motion processing within MT. Our data support the previously reported division of FST into separate dorsal and ventral areas, and they also suggest that MST of the owl monkey is, like MST of the macaque, functionally organized with respect to local versus wide-field motion processing.

Key words: functional neuroanatomy; functional organization; parallel processing; modularity; center-surround; figure ground

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