Cerebral Cortex, Vol. 12, No. 11, 1132-1145,
November 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press
Physiological Responses of New World Monkey V1 Neurons to Stimuli Defined by Coherent Motion
1 Department of Physiology, Monash University, Victoria 3800 and , 2 Vision, Touch and Hearing Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Queensland 4072, Australia
Address correspondence to Dr Marcello Rosa, Department of Physiology, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia. Email: marcello.rosa{at}med.monash.edu.au.
We studied the responses of neurons in area V1 of marmosets to visual stimuli that moved against dynamic textured backgrounds. The stimuli were defined either by a first-order cue (‘solid’ bars, which were either darker or lighter than the background) or by a second-order cue (‘camouflaged’ bars, defined only by coherent motion). Forty-two per cent of the neurons demonstrated a similar selectivity for the direction of motion of the solid and camouflaged bars, thereby characterizing a population of cue-invariant (CI) cells. The other cells either showed different selectivity to the movement of solid and camouflaged bars (non-cue-invariant, or NCI cells), or responded equally well to movement in all directions. CI neurons, which were rare in layer 4, tended to have larger receptive fields and to be more strongly direction selective than NCI cells. Although V1 neurons tended to show maximal responses to camouflaged bars that were longer than the ‘optimal’ solid bars, many CI neurons preferred first- and second-order stimuli of similar lengths. Finally, the activity evoked by the camouflaged bars was delayed in relation to that evoked by solid bars. These results demonstrate that motion CI responses are relatively common in primate V1, especially among a population of strongly direction-selective neurons. They also indicate that this response property may depend on feedback from extrastriate areas, or on complex intrinsic interactions within V1.
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