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Speed Dependence of Tuning to One-Dimensional Features in V1

Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York

Submitted 12 July 2006; accepted in final form 15 January 2007

Using drifting compound grating stimuli matched in energy and frequency spectrum, we previously showed that neurons in the primary visual cortex (V1) were tuned to line-like, edge-like, and intermediate one-dimensional features. Because these compound grating stimuli were drifting, allowing for potential interaction between shape and motion, we examine here the dependence of V1 feature tuning on drift speed. We find that the feature selectivity and specificity of individual V1 neurons strongly depend on speed. A simple model explains these observations in terms of an interaction between linear filtering by the receptive field and the static nonlinearity of spike threshold, embedded in a recurrent network. Although the speed-dependent behaviors in single V1 neurons preclude their acting as extractors of one-dimensional features, the population as a whole retains a representation of a full suite of features.