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  • Title: A visual field dependent architecture for second order motion processing.
    Author: Meso AI, Hess RF.
    Journal: Neurosci Lett; 2011 Oct 03; 503(2):77-82. PubMed ID: 21843594.
    Abstract:
    The visual system exploits a cortical hierarchy to process complex inputs such as those defined by modulations of motion and/or texture. One class of visual stimuli, composed of alternate stripes of opposing motion requires at least 2 separate stages of computation within this cortical hierarchy, thought to involve cortical area V1 and extra-striate regions like global motion area MT respectively. Using a psychophysical task, we characterise sensitivity to such stimuli containing periodic spatial modulations of motion gradients as a function of the ratio of the spatial parameters at the two processing levels by manipulating the spatial properties of the carrier and modulator. We find band-passed functions for foveal stimulus presentations showing an optimum sensitivity at ratios in the range of r≤10, informative of the coupling relationship between frequency channels at the carrier and modulator levels. An annulus stimulus (excluding the fovea) with a radius of 15.5° exhibited optima of sensitivity at r>15. This difference in the optimal coupling between filtering stages reflects a processing architecture that changes with eccentricity, consistent with the previously observed smaller differences between mean receptive field sizes in striate and extra-striate filtering stages in the fovea compared to the periphery. This is also important for visual psychophysics when comparing sensitivity for first and second order stimuli across retinal eccentricity.
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