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J Neurophysiol (October 24, 2007). doi:10.1152/jn.00096.2007
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Submitted on January 29, 2007
Accepted on October 15, 2007

Spatial frequency integration for binocular correspondence in macaque area V4

Hironori Kumano1, Seiji Tanabe2, and Ichiro Fujita3*

1 Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan
2 Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan; Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan
3 Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan; Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: fujita{at}fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp.

Neurons in the primary visual cortex (V1) detect binocular disparity by computing the local disparity energy of stereo images. The representation of binocular disparity in V1 contradicts the global correspondence when the image is binocularly anticorrelated. To solve the stereo correspondence problem, this rudimentary representation of stereoscopic depth needs to be further processed in the extrastriate cortex. Integrating signals over multiple spatial frequency channels is one possible mechanism supported by theoretical and psychophysical studies. We examined selectivities of single V4 neurons for both binocular disparity and spatial frequency in two awake, fixating monkeys. Disparity tuning was examined with a binocularly correlated random-dot stereogram (RDS), as well as its anticorrelated counterpart, while spatial frequency tuning was examined with a sine wave grating or a narrowband noise. Neurons with broader spatial frequency tuning exhibited more attenuated disparity tuning for the anticorrelated RDS. Additional rectification at the output of the energy model does not likely account for this attenuation because the degree of attenuation does not differ among the various types of disparity-tuned neurons. The results suggest that disparity energy signals are integrated across spatial frequency channels for generating a representation of stereoscopic depth in V4.




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