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Contour saliency in primary visual cortex
DOI:10.1016/j.neuron.2006.04.035.png)
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Contour integration is an important intermediate stage of object recognition, in which line segments belonging to an object boundary are perceptually linked and segmented from complex backgrounds. Contextual influences observed in primary visual cortex (V1) suggest the involvement of V1 in contour integration. Here, we provide direct evidence that, in monkeys performing a contour detection task, there was a close correlation between the responses of V1 neurons and the perceptual saliency of contours. Receiver operating characteristic analysis showed that single neuronal responses encode the presence or absence of a contour as reliably as the animal's behavioral responses. We also show that the same visual contours elicited significantly weaker neuronal responses when they were not detected in the detection task, or when they were unattended. Our results demonstrate that contextual interactions in V1 play a pivotal role in contour integration and saliency.
Keyword:
CONTEXTUAL INTERACTIONS
INTRINSIC CONNECTIONS
FEEDBACK CONNECTIONS
NEURONAL RESPONSES
RECEPTIVE-FIELDS
STRIATE CORTEX
AREA V1
INTEGRATION
CAT
ATTENTION
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IF:
15
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1.4W
被引数:
9.9W
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