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J Neurophysiol (June 29, 2005). doi:10.1152/jn.00802.2004
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Submitted on August 5, 2004
Accepted on June 23, 2005

Role of Primate Visual Area V4 in the Processing of 3-D Shape Characteristics Defined by Disparity

Jay Hegde and David C. Van Essen*

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: vanessen{at}brainvis.wustl.edu.

We studied the responses of V4 neurons in awake, fixating monkeys to a diverse set of stereoscopic stimuli, including zero-order disparity (frontoparallel) stimuli, surfaces oriented in depth, and convex and concave shapes presented at various mean disparities. The responses of many V4 cells were significantly modulated across each of these stimulus subsets. In general, V4 cells were broadly tuned for zero-order disparity, and at any given disparity value, about four-fifths of the cells responded significantly above background. The response modulation by flat surfaces oriented in depth was significant for about one quarter of cells, and the responses of about one-third of the cells were significantly modulated by convex or concave surfaces at various mean disparities. However, we encountered no cells that unambiguously distinguished a given 3-D shape independent of mean disparity. Thus, 3-D shapes defined by disparity are unlikely to be represented explicitly at the level of individual V4 cells. Nonetheless, V4 cells likely play an important role in the processing of 3-D shape characteristics defined by disparity as a part of a distributed network.




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