Abstract:
:A theoretical analysis of the recovery of shape from optic flow highlights the importance of the deformation components; however, pure deforming stimuli elicit few responses from flow-sensitive neurons in the medial superior temporal (MST) area of the cerebral cortex. This finding has prompted the conclusion that MST cells are not involved in shape recovery. However, this conclusion may be unjustified in view of the emerging consensus that MST cells perform nonlinear pattern matching, rather than linear projection as implicitly assumed in many neurophysiological studies. Artificial neural models suggest that the input probability density function (PDF) is crucial in determining the distribution of responses shown by pattern-matching cells. This paper therefore describes a Monte-Carlo study of the joint PDF for linear optic-flow components produced by ego-motion in a simulated planar environment. The recent search for deformation-selective cells in MST is then used to illustrate the importance of the input PDF in determining cell characteristics. The results are consistent with the finding that MST cells exhibit a continuum of responses to translation, rotation, and divergence. In addition, there are negative correlations between the deformation and conformal components of optic flow. Consequently, if cells responsible for shape analysis are present in the MST area, they should respond best to combinations of deformation with other first-order flow components, rather than to the pure stimuli used in previous neurophysiological studies.
journal_name
Perceptionjournal_title
Perceptionauthors
Ivins J,Porrill J,Frisby J,Orban Gdoi
10.1068/p2807keywords:
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Has Abstractpub_date
1999-01-01 00:00:00pages
17-32issue
1eissn
0301-0066issn
1468-4233journal_volume
28pub_type
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