Specialized contributions of mid-tier stages of dorsal and ventral pathways to stereoscopic processing in macaque
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- 24 February 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd in eLife
Abstract
The division of labor between the dorsal and ventral visual pathways has been well studied, but not often with direct comparison at the single-neuron resolution with matched stimuli. Here we directly compared how single neurons in MT and V4, mid-tier areas of the two pathways, process binocular disparity, a powerful cue for 3D perception and actions. We found that MT neurons transmitted disparity signals more quickly and robustly, whereas V4 or its upstream neurons transformed the signals into sophisticated representations more prominently. Therefore, signaling speed and robustness were traded for transformation between the dorsal and ventral pathways. The key factor in this tradeoff was disparity-tuning shape: V4 neurons had more even-symmetric tuning than MT neurons. Moreover, the tuning symmetry predicted the degree of signal transformation across neurons similarly within each area, implying a general role of tuning symmetry in the stereoscopic processing by the two pathways.Funding Information
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2324007)
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (15H01437)
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (17H01381)
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (18H05007)
- Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
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