Selectivity for speed gradients in human area MT/V5 |
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Authors: | Martinez-Trujillo Julio C Tsotsos John K Simine Evgueni Pomplun Marc Wildes Richard Treue Stefan Heinze Hans-Jochen Hopf Jens-Max |
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Affiliation: | Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. julio.martinez@mcgill.ca |
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Abstract: | Cortical area MT/V5 in the human occipito-temporal cortex is activated by visual motion. In this study, we use functional imaging to demonstrate that a subregion of MT/V5 is more strongly activated by unidirectional motion with speed gradients than by other motion patterns. Our results suggest that like the monkey homolog middle temporal area (MT), human MT/V5 contains neurons selective for the processing of speed gradients. Such neurons may constitute an intermediate stage of processing between neurons selective for the average speed of unidirectional motion and neurons selective for different combinations of speed gradient and different motion directions such as expanding optical flow patterns. |
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