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Going from a Retinotopic to a Spatiotopic Coordinate System for Spatial Attention

Duncan E. Astle
Journal of Neuroscience 1 April 2009, 29 (13) 3971-3973; https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5929-08.2009
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    A, A point of fixation on the visual display shown to subjects, marked with a + (at the x–y coordinates −2, −1), with the attention cue appearing to the right of this fixation point (at the x–y coordinates −1, −1). Below this there is a salience map, with salience being measured in arbitrary units up the z-axis (from 0 to 40). The x-axis and y-axis of the map show the same coordinates as represented on the visual display above, with a peak in salience at the location of attentional focus. B, The screen after the saccade, with the gray plus sign representing the previous fixation point and the black plus sign the new fixation point. The two salience maps below represent the two alternative possibilities that Golomb et al. are now able to distinguish: a retinotopic and a spatiotopic locus of spatial attention.

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  • Re: No translation invariance in mammalian vision
    Duncan E. Astle
    Published on: 22 April 2009
  • No translation invariance in mammalian vision
    Tony Vladusich
    Published on: 13 April 2009
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    Re: No translation invariance in mammalian vision
    • Duncan E. Astle, Junior Research Fellow

    I agree that Figure 1 does not accurately depict the coordinate system in early visual cortex, but it was not intended to. As part of a Journal Club, it was simply designed to explain the logic behind the paper by Golomb et al. to the broader readership of The Journal of Neuroscience. It was not meant as a model of spatial vision, to depict activity within early visual cortex, or to reflect specific neural activity. I apologi...

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    I agree that Figure 1 does not accurately depict the coordinate system in early visual cortex, but it was not intended to. As part of a Journal Club, it was simply designed to explain the logic behind the paper by Golomb et al. to the broader readership of The Journal of Neuroscience. It was not meant as a model of spatial vision, to depict activity within early visual cortex, or to reflect specific neural activity. I apologize if any readers were misled by the figure.

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    Competing Interests: None declared.
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    No translation invariance in mammalian vision
    • Tony Vladusich, Research Associate

    The cartoon shown in Figure 1 is grossly misleading, as the complex-valued log-polar mapping of visual field coordinates to cortical visual coordinates in the early visual cortex precludes the type of translation (shift) invariance invoked in simple Cartesian coordinate systems. The failure of translation invariance in mammalian vision has been know for over thirty years, yet researchers continue to ignore this fact when...

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    The cartoon shown in Figure 1 is grossly misleading, as the complex-valued log-polar mapping of visual field coordinates to cortical visual coordinates in the early visual cortex precludes the type of translation (shift) invariance invoked in simple Cartesian coordinate systems. The failure of translation invariance in mammalian vision has been know for over thirty years, yet researchers continue to ignore this fact when constructing models of spatial vision. See, for example, Schwartz (1980, 1983) for further details.

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    Schwartz, E.L. (1980). Computational anatomy and functional architecture of striate cortex: a spatial mapping approach to perceptual coding. Vision Research, 20(8), 645-669.

    Schwartz, E.L. (1983). Cortical mapping and perceptual invariance: a reply to Cavanagh. Vision Research, 23(8), 831-835.

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    Competing Interests: None declared.

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