Binocular neurons in V1 of awake monkeys are selective for absolute, not relative, disparity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 5602-5618

  Cumming, Bruce G ^a   Parker, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binocular disparity; Depth perception; Primary visual cortex; Receptive field; Stereopsis; Vergence eye movements

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MONKEY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0033168303     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-13-05602.1999     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Barlow H, Blakemore C, Pettigrew J (1967) The neural mechanisms of binocular depth discrimination. J Physiol 193:327-342.
2. Bishop PO, Henry GH (1971) Spatial vision. Annu Rev Psychol 22:119-160.
3. Brookes A, Stevens KA (1989) The analogy between stereo depth and brightness. Perception 18:601-614.
4. Collewijn H, Erkelens C, Steinman R (1988) Binocular co-ordination of human horizontal saccadic eye movements. J Physiol (Lond) 404:157-182.
5. Cumming BG, Judge SJ (1986) Disparity-induced and blur-induced convergence eye movement and accommodation in the monkey. J Neurophysiol 55:896-914.
6. Cumming BG, Parker AJ (1997) Responses of primary visual cortical neurons to binocular disparity without the perception of depth. Nature 389:280-283.
7. Cumming BG, Parker AJ (1998a) Eye movements explain contextual modulation by disparity in primate V1. Soc Neurosci Abstr 24:1981.
8. Cumming BG, Parker AJ (1998b) Vergence eye movements explain some aspects of contextual modulation in primate V1. Perception 27:20.
9. Draper NR, Smith H (1966) Advanced regression analysis. New York: Wiley.
10. Duwaer AL (1983) New measures of fixation disparity in the diagnosis of binocular oculomotor deficiences. Am J Optom Physiol Opt 60:586-597.
11. Enright J (1991) Exploring the third dimension with eye movements: better than stereopsis. Vision Res 31:1549-1546.
12. Erkelens CJ, Collewijn H (1985) Motion perception during dichoptic viewing of moving random-dot stereograms. Vision Res 25:583-588.
13. Gilbert CD, Wiesel TN (1990) The influence of contextual stimuli on the orientation selectivity of cells in primary visual cortex of the cat. Vision Res 30:1689-1701.
14. Gur M, Snodderly D (1987) Studying striate cortex neurons in behaving monkeys: benefits of image stabilization. Vision Res 27:2081-2087.
15. Gur M, Snodderly D (1997) Visual receptive fields of neurons in primary visual cortex (V1) move in space with the eye movements of fixation. Vision Res 37:257-265.
16. Howard IP, Rogers BJ (1995) Binocular vision and stereopsis. Oxford: OUP.
17. Jaschinski-Kruza W, Schubert-Alshuth E (1992) Variability of fixation disparity and accommodation when viewing a CRT visual display unit. Ophthal Physiol Opt 12:411-419.
18. Joshua DE, Bishop PO (1970) Binocular single vision and depth discrimination. Receptive field disparities for central and peripheral vision and binocular interaction on peripheral single units in cat striate cortex. Exp Brain Res 10:389-416.
19. Judge SJ (1991) Vergence. In: Vision and visual dysfunction (Carpenter R, ed), pp 157-172. London: Macmillan.
20. Judge SJ, Richmond BJ, Chu FC (1980) Implantation of magnetic search coils for measurement of eye position: an improved method. Vision Res 30:535-538.
21. Levitt JB, Lund JS (1997) Contrast dependence of contextual effects in primate visual cortex. Nature 387:73-76.
22. Maffei L, Fiorentini A (1976) The unresponsive regions of visual cortical receptive fields. Vision Res 1131-1139.
23. McKee SP, Levi DM (1987) Dichoptic hyperacuity: the precision of nonius alignment. J Opt Soc Am 4:1104-1108.
24. McKee SP, Welch L, Taylor DG, Browne SF (1990) Finding the common bond: stereoacuity and other hyperacuities. Vision Res 30:879-891.
25. Merrill EG, Ainsworth A (1972) Glass-coated platinum-plated tungsten electrodes. Med Biol Eng 10:662-672.
26. Motter BC, Poggio GF (1984) Binocular fixation in the rhesus monkey: spatial and temporal characteristics. Exp Brain Res 54:304-314.
27. Motter BC, Poggio GF (1990) Dynamic stabilization of receptive fields of cortical neurons (V1) during fixation of gaze in the macaque. Exp Brain Res 83:37-43.
28. Mountcastle VB, Lynch JC, Georgopoulos A, Sakata H, Acuna C (1975) Command functions for operations within extrapersonal space. J Neurophysiol 38:871-908.
29. Nikara T, Bishop PO, Pettigrew JD (1968) Analysis of retinal correspondence by studying receptive fields of binocular single units in cat striate cortex. Exp Brain Res 6:353-372.
30. Ogle KN (1964) Researches in binocular vision. New York: Hafner.
31. Ohzawa I (1998) Mechanisms of stereoscopic vision: the disparity energy model. Curr Opin Biol 8:509-515.
32. Ohzawa I, DeAngelis GC, Freeman RD (1990) Stereoscopic depth discrimination in the visual cortex: neurons ideally suited as disparity detectors. Science 249:1037-1041.
33. Poggio G (1995) Mechanisms of stereopsis in monkey visual cortex. Cereb Cortex 3:193-204.
34. Poggio GF, Fisher B (1977) Binocular interactions and depth sensitivity in striate and prestriate cortex of behaving rhesus monkey. J Neurophysiol 40:1392-1405.
35. Poggio GF, Talbot WH (1981) Mechanisms of static and dynamic stereopsis in foveal cortex of the rhesus monkey. J Physiol (Lond) 315:469-492.
36. Rashbass C, Westheimer G (1961) Disjunctive eye movements. J Physiol (Lond) 159:326-338.
37. Regan D, Erkelens CJ, Collewijn H (1986) Necessary conditions for the perception of motion-in-depth. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 27:584-597.
38. Riggs LA, Neill EW (1960) Eye movements recorded during convergence and divergence. J Opt Soc Am 50:913-920.
39. Rogers BJ, Graham ME (1982) Similarities between motion parallax and stereopsis in human depth perception. Vision Res 22:261-270.
40. Sillito AM, Grieve KL, Jones HE, Cudeiro J, Davies J (1995) Visual cortical mechanisms detecting focal orientation discontinuities. Nature 378:492-496.
41. Skottun B, DeValois R, Grosof D, Movshon J, Albrecht D, Bonds A (1991) Classifying simple and complex cells on the basis of response modulation. Vision Res 31:1079-1086.
42. St. Cyr GF, Fender DH (1969) The interplay of drifts and flicks in binocular fixation. Vision Res 9:245-265.
43. Trotter Y, Celebrini S, Stricanne B, Thorpe S, Imbert M (1992) Modulation of neural stereoscopic processing in primate area-V1 by the viewing distance. Science 257:1279-1281.
44. Trotter Y, Celebrini S, Stricanne B, Thorpe S, Imbert M (1997) Neural processing of stereopsis as a function of viewing distance in primate visual cortical area V1. J Neurophysiol 76:2872-2885.
45. Tyler CW (1973) Stereoscopic vision: cortical limitations and a disparity scaling effect. Science 181:276-278.
46. Tyler CW (1974) Depth perception in disparity gratings. Nature 251:140-142.
47. Westheimer G (1979) Cooperative neural processes involved in stereoscopic acuity. Exp Brain Res 36:585-597.
48. Wheatstone C (1838) Contributions to the physiology of vision I: on some remarkable, and hitherto unobserved, phenomena of vision. Philos Trans R Soc B Biol Sci 13:371-395.
49. Wurtz R (1969) Visual receptive fields of striate cortex neurons in awake monkeys. J Neurophysiol 36:727-242.
50. Zipser K, Lamme VF, Schiller PH (1996) Contextual modulation in primary visual cortex. J Neurosci 16:7376-7389.