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The Journal of Neuroscience, December 15, 2002, 22(24):10811-10818
Isolation of Relevant Visual Features from Random Stimuli for Cortical Complex Cells
Jon Touryan1, Brian Lau2, and Yang Dan1, 2 1 Group in Vision Science, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, and 2 Division of Neurobiology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3200
A crucial step in understanding the function of a neural circuit in visual processing is to know what stimulus features are represented in the spiking activity of the neurons. For neurons with complex, nonlinear response properties, characterization of feature representation requires measurement of their responses to a large ensemble of visual stimuli and an analysis technique that allows identification of relevant features in the stimuli. In the present study, we recorded the responses of complex cells in the primary visual cortex of the cat to spatiotemporal random-bar stimuli and applied spike-triggered correlation analysis of the stimulus ensemble. For each complex cell, we were able to isolate a small number of relevant features from a large number of null features in the random-bar stimuli. Using these features as visual stimuli, we found that each relevant feature excited the neuron effectively in isolation and contributed to the response additively when combined with other features. In contrast, the null features evoked little or no response in isolation and divisively suppressed the responses to relevant features. Thus, for each cortical complex cell, visual inputs can be decomposed into two distinct types of features (relevant and null), and additive and divisive interactions between these features may constitute the basic operations in visual cortical processing.
Key words: complex cell; primary visual cortex; Wiener kernel; principal component analysis; spatiotemporal; nonlinear
Copyright © 2002 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/02/222410811-08$05.00/0
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