Neuronal adaptation to visual motion in area MT of the macaque (2003)
| Venue: | Neuron |
| Citations: | 10 - 1 self |
BibTeX
@ARTICLE{Kohn03neuronaladaptation,
author = {Adam Kohn and J. Anthony Movshon and Howard Hughes},
title = {Neuronal adaptation to visual motion in area MT of the macaque},
journal = {Neuron},
year = {2003},
pages = {681--691}
}
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Abstract
whether adaptation is a universal feature of cortical computation or whether it mostly occurs early in a sensory processing stream and is simply inherited as adapted signals pass to downstream cortical areas. With this motivation in mind, we studied adaptation in neurons in cortical area MT (or V5), an extrastriate visual area that contains a high proportion of neurons that are selective for the direction of motion of visual stimuli (Zeki, 1974; Maunsell and Van Essen, 1983a). Adaptation in MT is of interest for several reasons. First, psychophysical studies suggest that visual motion pro-cessing is strongly affected by adaptation (for a review, see Mather et al, 1998). For instance, the prolonged viewing of a moving stimulus causes subsequently viewed static or motion-balanced stimuli to appear to







