The feature-specific propagation of orientation and direction adaptation from areas 17 to 21a in cats

Abstract Adaptation plays a key role in visual information processing, and investigations on the adaptation across different visual regions will be helpful to understand how information is processed dynamically along the visual streams. Recent studies have found the enhanced adaptation effects in th...

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Autores principales: Zhong Li, Jianjun Meng, Hongjian Li, Anqi Jin, Qijun Tang, Jianbin Zhu, Hongbo Yu
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Sumario:Abstract Adaptation plays a key role in visual information processing, and investigations on the adaptation across different visual regions will be helpful to understand how information is processed dynamically along the visual streams. Recent studies have found the enhanced adaptation effects in the early visual system (from LGN to V1) and the dorsal stream (from V1 to MT). However, it remains unclear how adaptation effect propagates along the form/orientation stream in the visual system. In this study, we compared the orientation and direction adaptation evoked by drifting gratings and stationary flashing gratings, as well as moving random dots, in areas 17 and 21a simultaneously of cats. Recorded by single-unit and intrinsic signal optical imaging, induced by both top-up and biased adaptation protocols, the orientation adaptation effect was greater in response decline and preferred orientation shifts in area 21a compared to area 17. However, for the direction adaptation, no difference was observed between these two areas. These results suggest the feature-specific propagation of the adaptation effect along the visual stream.