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The Journal of Neuroscience, July 19, 2006, 26(29):7581-7596; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5308-05.2006

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A Simple Account of Cyclopean Edge Responses in Macaque V2

Christine E. Bredfeldt and Bruce G. Cumming

Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892

Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Christine E. Bredfeldt, Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, 49 Convent Drive, 2A50, Bethesda, MD 20892. Email: cb{at}nei.nih.gov

It has been shown recently that neurons in V2 respond selectively to the edges of figures defined only by disparity (cyclopean edges). These responses are orientation selective, often preferring similar orientations for cyclopean and luminance contours, suggesting that they may support a cue-invariant representation of contours. Here, we investigate the extent to which processing of purely local visual information (in the vicinity of the receptive field) might explain such results, using the most impoverished stimulus possible containing a cyclopean edge (a circular patch of random dots divided into two regions by a single edge). Many V2 cells responded better to the cyclopean edge than to uniform disparities, and most of these were at least broadly selective for the orientation of the cyclopean edge. Two characteristics argue against a cue-invariant contour representation: (1) the cyclopean edge response was frequently abolished by small changes to the component disparities; and (2) although V2 cells frequently responded to both signs of a cyclopean edge (defined by which side of the edge is in front), they did so at different edge locations. These characteristics are consistent with a simple feedforward scheme in which V2 neurons receive inputs from several V1 subunits with different disparity selectivity. We also found a correlation between the preferred orientations for cyclopean edges and contrast stimuli, suggesting that this feedforward wiring is not random. These characteristics suggest that V2 responses to cyclopean edges may be useful in supporting a cue-invariant contour representation higher in the visual pathway.

Key words: vision; binocular; macaque; V2; contour; disparity

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Received Dec. 13, 2005; revised May 11, 2006; accepted June 4, 2006.

Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Christine E. Bredfeldt, Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, 49 Convent Drive, 2A50, Bethesda, MD 20892. Email: cb{at}nei.nih.gov

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