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J Neurophysiol 89: 2743-2759, 2003; doi:10.1152/jn.00822.2002
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J Neurophysiol (May 1, 2003). 10.1152/jn.00822.2002
Submitted on Submitted 17 September 2002; accepted in final form 26 December 2002

Substructure of Direction-Selective Receptive Fields in Macaque V1

Margaret S. Livingstone and Bevil R. Conway

Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115

Livingstone, Margaret S. and Bevil R. Conway. Substructure of Direction-Selective Receptive Fields in Macaque V1. J. Neurophysiol. 89: 2743-2759, 2003. We used two-dimensional (2-D) sparse noise to map simultaneous and sequential two-spot interactions in simple and complex direction-selective cells in macaque V1. Sequential-interaction maps for both simple and complex cells showed preferred-direction facilitation and null-direction suppression for same-contrast stimulus sequences and the reverse for inverting-contrast sequences, although the magnitudes of the interactions were weaker for the simple cells. Contrast-sign selectivity in complex cells indicates that direction-selective interactions in these cells must occur in antecedent simple cells or in simple-cell-like dendritic compartments. Our maps suggest that direction selectivity, and ON and OFF segregation perpendicular to the orientation axis, can occur prior to receptive-field elongation along the orientation axis. 2-D interaction maps for some complex cells showed elongated alternating facilitatory and suppressive interactions as predicted if their inputs were orientation-selective simple cells. The negative interactions, however, were less elongated than the positive interactions, and there was an inflection at the origin in the positive interactions, so the interactions were chevron-shaped rather than band-like. Other complex cells showed only two round interaction regions, one negative and one positive. Several explanations for the map shapes are considered, including the possibility that directional interactions are generated directly from unoriented inputs.




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