Shifts in the Population Response in the Middle Temporal Visual Area Parallel Perceptual and Motor Illusions Produced by Apparent Motion

This research was supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and by National Institutes of Health Grants R01-EY03878 and T32-EY07120. We are grateful to Nicholas Priebe, who assisted with pilot recording studies, and to Ken Miller, Philip Sabes, and William Newsome for helpful comments on analysis, interpretation, and presentation.

Correspondence should be addressed to Mark M. Churchland, Department of Physiology, University of California San Francisco, Box 0444, 513 Parnassus Avenue, Room 762-S, San Francisco, CA 94143-0444. E-mail:mchurchl{at}phy.ucsf.edu.