論文

査読有り
2014年5月

Neurons in cortical area MST remap the memory trace of visual motion across saccadic eye movements

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  • Naoko Inaba
  • ,
  • Kenji Kawano

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開始ページ
7825
終了ページ
7830
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1073/pnas.1401370111
出版者・発行元
NATL ACAD SCIENCES

Perception of a stable visual world despite eye motion requires integration of visual information across saccadic eye movements. To investigate how the visual system deals with localization of moving visual stimuli across saccades, we observed spatiotemporal changes of receptive fields (RFs) of motion-sensitive neurons across periods of saccades in the middle temporal (MT) and medial superior temporal (MST) areas. We found that the location of the RFs moved with shifts of eye position due to saccades, indicating that motion-sensitive neurons in both areas have retinotopic RFs across saccades. Different characteristic responses emerged when the moving visual stimulus was turned off before the saccades. For MT neurons, virtually no response was observed after the saccade, suggesting that the responses of these neurons simply reflect the reafferent visual information. In contrast, most MST neurons increased their firing rates when a saccade brought the location of the visual stimulus into their RFs, where the visual stimulus itself no longer existed. These findings suggest that the responses of such MST neurons after saccades were evoked by a memory of the stimulus that had preexisted in the postsaccadic RFs ("memory remapping"). A delayed-saccade paradigm further revealed that memory remapping in MST was linked to the saccade itself, rather than to a shift in attention. Thus, the visual motion information across saccades was integrated in spatiotopic coordinates and represented in the activity of MST neurons. This is likely to contribute to the perception of a stable visual world in the presence of eye movements.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1401370111
J-GLOBAL
https://jglobal.jst.go.jp/detail?JGLOBAL_ID=201402205203237750
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24821778
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000336411300071&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1401370111
  • ISSN : 0027-8424
  • J-Global ID : 201402205203237750
  • PubMed ID : 24821778
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000336411300071

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