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The Journal of Neuroscience, July 15, 2002, 22(14):6195-6207

Neural Correlates of Structure-from-Motion Perception in Macaque V1 and MT

Alexander Grunewald, David C. Bradley, and Richard A. Andersen

Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125

Structure-from-motion (SFM) is the perception of three-dimensional shape from motion cues. We used a bistable SFM stimulus, which can be perceived in one of two different ways, to study how neural activity in cortical areas V1 and MT is related to SFM perception. Monkeys performed a depth-order task, where they indicated in which direction the front surface of a rotating SFM cylinder display was moving. To prevent contamination of the neural data because of eye position effects, all experiments with significant effects of radius, vergence, and velocity were excluded. As expected, the activity of ~50% of neurons in V1 and ~80% of neurons in MT is affected by the stimulus. Furthermore, the activity of 20% of neurons in area V1 is modulated with the percept. This proportion is higher in MT, where the activity of >60% of neurons is modulated with the percept. In both areas, this perceptual modulation occurs only in neurons with activity that is also affected by the stimulus. The perceptual modulation is not correlated with neural tuning properties in area V1, but it is in area MT. Together, these results suggest that V1 is not directly involved in the generation of the SFM percept, whereas MT is. The perceptual modulation in V1 may be attributable to top-down feedback from MT.

Key words: visual motion; visual perception; striate cortex; middle temporal; depth-order; rhesus

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