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- Title
Differential Sampling of Visual Space in Ventral and Dorsal Early Visual Cortex.
- Authors
Silson, Edward H.; Reynolds, Richard C.; Kravitz, Dwight J.; Baker, Chris I.
- Abstract
A fundamental feature of cortical visual processing is the separation of visual processing for the upper and lower visual fields. In early visual cortex (EVC), the upper visual field is processed ventrally, with the lower visual field processed dorsally. This distinction persists into several category-selective regions of occipitotemporal cortex, with ventral and lateral scene-, face-, and object-selective regions biased tor the upper and lower visual fields, respectively. Here, using an elliptical population receptive field (pRF) model, we systematically tested the sampling of visual space within ventral and dorsal divisions of human EVC in both male and female participants. We found that (1) pRFs tend to be elliptical and oriented toward the fovea with distinct angular distributions for ventral and dorsal divisions of EVC, potentially reflecting a radial bias; and (2) pRFs in ventral areas were larger (~1 .5X) and more elliptical (~1.2X) than those in dorsal areas. These differences potentially reflect a tendency for receptive fields in ventral temporal cortex to overlap the fovea with less emphasis on precise localization and isotropic representation of space compared with dorsal areas. Collectively, these findings suggest that ventral and dorsal divisions of EVC sample visual space differently, likely contributing to and/or stemming from the functional differentiation of visual processing observed in higher-level regions of the ventral and dorsal cortical visual pathways.
- Subjects
VISUAL cortex physiology; VISUAL pathways; VISUAL discrimination; VISUAL perception; EYE examination; RETINAL imaging
- Publication
Journal of Neuroscience, 2018, Vol 38, Issue 9, p2294
- ISSN
0270-6474
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2717-17.2018