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Direction-selective adaptation in simple and complex cells in cat striate cortex.

Abstract：

:1. The selectivity of adaptation to unidirectional motion was examined in neurons of the cat striate cortex. Following prolonged stimulation with a unidirectional high-contrast grating, the responsivity of cortical neurons was reduced. In many units this decrease was restricted to the direction of prior stimulation. This selective adaptation produced changes in the degree of direction selectivity of the cortical units (as measured by the ratio of the response to motion in the preferred direction to that in the nonpreferred direction). 2. The initial strength of the directional preference of a given cortical unit did not determine the degree of direction-selective adaptation. Indeed, even non-direction-selective units could exhibit pronounced direction-selective adaptation. The degree of direction-selective adaptation was also independent of the overall decrease in responsivity during adaptation. 3. There was no difference between simple and complex cells in the total amount of adaptation observed. The selectivity of the adaptation, however, did differ between these two cell types. As a group, simple cells showed significant direction-selective adaptation, whereas complex cells did not. The directional preference of most simple cells decreased following preferred direction adaptation and many highly direction selective simple cells became non-direction selective. In addition, simple cells became significantly more direction selective following nonpreferred direction adaptation. 4. Some complex cells also demonstrated direction-selective adaptation. There was, however, much more variability among complex cells than simple cells. Some complex cells actually increased direction selectivity following preferred direction adaptation. These differences between simple and complex cells suggest that changes in direction selectivity following unidirectional adaptation are not due to simple neuronal fatigue of the unit being recorded, but depend on selective adaptation of afferent inputs to the unit. 5. The spontaneous activity of many cortical neurons decreased following preferred direction adaptation but increased following adaptation in the nonpreferred direction. The response to a stationary grating also decreased following preferred direction adaptation. However, there was very little change in the response to a stationary grating following adaptation in the nonpreferred direction.

journal_name

J Neurophysiol

journal_title

Journal of neurophysiology

authors

Marlin SG,Hasan SJ,Cynader MS

doi

10.1152/jn.1988.59.4.1314

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1988-04-01 00:00:00

pages

1314-30

issue

eissn

0022-3077

issn

1522-1598

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Direction-selective adaptation in simple and complex cells in cat striate cortex.