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Cue-dependent deficits in grating orientation discrimination after V4 lesions in macaques

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2009

Peter De Weerd ,
Robert Desimone  and
Leslie G. Ungerleider
Peter De Weerd
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Psychology and Psychopathology, NIMH, Bethesda
Robert Desimone
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Neuropsychology, NIMH, Bethesda
Leslie G. Ungerleider
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Psychology and Psychopathology, NIMH, Bethesda
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Abstract

To examine the role of visual area V4 in pattern vision, we tested two monkeys with lesions of V4 on tasks that required them to discriminate the orientation of contours defined by several different cues. The cues used to separate the contours from their background included luminance, color, motion, and texture, as well as phase-shifted abutting gratings that created an “illusory” contour. The monkeys were trained to maintain fixation on a fixation target while discriminating extrafoveal stimuli, which were located in either a normal control quadrant of the visual field or in a quadrant affected by a lesion of area V4 in one hemisphere. Comparing performance in the two quadrants, we found significant deficits for contours defined by texture and for the illusory contour, but smaller or no deficits for motion-, color-, and luminance-defined contours. The data suggest a specific role of V4 in the perception of illusory contours and contours defined by texture.

Keywords

MacaqueArea V4Lesion effectsTexture-defined contoursIllusory contour

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Visual Neuroscience , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , May 1996 , pp. 529 - 538
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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