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Heading encoding in the macaque ventral intraparietal area (VIP)
Abstract
We recorded neuronal responses to optic flow stimuli in the ventral intraparietal area (VIP) of two awake macaque monkeys. According to previous studies on optic flow responses in monkey extrastriate cortex we used different stimulus classes: frontoparallel motion, radial stimuli (expansion and contraction) and rotational stimuli (clockwise and counter-clockwise). Seventy-five percent of the cells showed statistically significant responses to one or more of these optic flow stimuli. Shifting the location of the singularity of the optic flow stimuli within the visual field led to a response modulation in almost all cases. For the majority of neurons, this modulatory influence could be approximated in a statistically significant manner by a two-dimensional linear regression. Gradient directions, derived from the regression parameters and indicating the direction of the steepest increase in the responses, were uniformly distributed. At the population level, an unbiased average response for the stimuli with different focus locations was observed. By applying a population code, termed 'isofrequency encoding', we demonstrate the capability of the recorded neuronal ensemble to retrieve the focus location from its population discharge. Responses to expansion and contraction stimuli cannot be predicted based on quantitative data on a neuron's frontoparallel preferred stimulus direction and the location and size of its receptive field. These results, taken together with data on polymodal motion responses in this area, suggest an involvement of area VIP in the analysis and the encoding of heading.
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“Multisensory PPS neurons integrate tactile, visual, and auditory stimuli when presented at a limited distance from the body (Rizzolatti, Fadiga, Fogassi, & Gallese, 1997; Graziano & Cooke, 2006; Bremmer at al, 2002; Makin et al., 2007; Gentile et al., 2011), but not when further away. This limit defines the boundary of PPS”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bremmer, F., Duhamel, J., Ben Hamed, S., & Graf, W.
- Affiliations
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Bremmer, Frank
- Venue
- European Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2002-10
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1554-1568
- ISSN
- 0953-816X (ISSN-L)
- 1460-9568
- OpenAlex
- W2086569041
- Cited by
- 232
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 4.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- European Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- European Commission
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Vestibular and auditory disorders
- Keywords
- ventral intraparietal area, optical flow, macaque, population coding, rotational motion, receptive fields, extrastriate cortex
- MeSH terms
- Action Potentials, Animals, Female, Macaca fascicularis, Macaca mulatta, Motion Perception, Neurons, Orientation, Parietal Lobe, Photic Stimulation, Space Perception, Visual Cortex, Visual Fields
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