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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
27
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-1-24
pubmed:abstractText
The spatio-temporal receptive fields (RFs) of cells in the macaque monkey lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) and striate cortex (V1) have been examined and two distinct sub-populations of non-directional V1 cells have been found: those with a slow largely monophasic temporal RF, and those with a fast very biphasic temporal response. These two sub-populations are in temporal quadrature, the fast biphasic cells crossing over from one response phase to the reverse just as the slow monophasic cells reach their peak response. The two sub-populations also differ in the spatial phases of their RFs. A principal components analysis of the spatio-temporal RFs of directional V1 cells shows that their RFs could be constructed by a linear combination of two components, one of which has the temporal and spatial characteristics of a fast biphasic cell, and the other the temporal and spatial characteristics of a slow monophasic cell. Magnocellular LGN cells are fast and biphasic and lead the fast-biphasic V1 subpopulation by 7 ms; parvocellular LGN cells are slow and largely monophasic and lead the slow monophasic V1 sub-population by 12 ms. We suggest that directional V1 cells get inputs in the approximate temporal and spatial quadrature required for motion detection by combining signals from the two non-directional cortical sub-populations which have been identified, and that these sub-populations have their origins in magno and parvo LGN cells, respectively.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0042-6989
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
40
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3685-702
pubmed:dateRevised
2003-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Spatial and temporal receptive fields of geniculate and cortical cells and directional selectivity.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology, University of California, 3210 Tolman Hall # 1650, 94720-1650, Berkeley, CA, USA. russ@valois.berkeley.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article