Area 18 of the Cat: The First Step in Processing Visual Movement Information
- 1 October 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perception
- Vol. 6 (5) , 501-511
- https://doi.org/10.1068/p060501
Abstract
In cats, responses of area 18 neurons to different moving patterns were measured. The influence of three movement parameters—direction, angular velocity, and amplitude of movement— were tested. The results indicate that in area 18 no ideal movement detector exists, but that simple and complex cells each perform complementary operations of primary visual areas, i.e. analysis and detection of movement.Keywords
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