Abstract. The area V6A of the medial parieto-occipital cortex of the macaque is studied for gaze sensitivity. The reported experimental observations support the computational theory of the gain fields to produce a distributed representation of the real position of targets in head-centered coordinates. Although it was originally pointed out that the majority of the cells exhibit roughly linear gain fields [1] [2], we have verified that the peak-shaped gaze fields reported in this study are not in contrast with the gain field models developed in the theoretical neuroscience literature [3] [4]. Rather, the use of peak-shaped (e.g., non monotonic) gaze fields even improves the efficiency of the coding scheme by reducing the number of units that are necessary to encode the target position.
Breveglieri R., Bosco A., Canessa A., Fattori P., Sabatini S. P. (2009). Evidence for Peak-shaped Gaze Fields in Area V6A: Implications for Sensorimotor Transformations in Reaching Tasks.. BERLIN HEIDELBERG : Springer-Verlag.
Evidence for Peak-shaped Gaze Fields in Area V6A: Implications for Sensorimotor Transformations in Reaching Tasks.
BREVEGLIERI, ROSSELLA;BOSCO, ANNALISA;FATTORI, PATRIZIA;
2009
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Abstract. The area V6A of the medial parieto-occipital cortex of the macaque is studied for gaze sensitivity. The reported experimental observations support the computational theory of the gain fields to produce a distributed representation of the real position of targets in head-centered coordinates. Although it was originally pointed out that the majority of the cells exhibit roughly linear gain fields [1] [2], we have verified that the peak-shaped gaze fields reported in this study are not in contrast with the gain field models developed in the theoretical neuroscience literature [3] [4]. Rather, the use of peak-shaped (e.g., non monotonic) gaze fields even improves the efficiency of the coding scheme by reducing the number of units that are necessary to encode the target position.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
