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Higher Visual Areas & The NCC Flashcards

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What does the extrastriate cortex contain?

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It contains at lease four separate visual areas

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What has future research identified in the association cortex?

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It’s physiological properties which are divided up into fields of common functionality

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What is a connection between two cortical areas considered to be?

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Ascending or forward if axons predominantly terminate in layer 4

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What does a descending/feedback connection entail?

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The axons avoid layer 4, targeting the upper layers instead and, on occasion, layer 6.

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What is a key characteristic of the termination zone of axons?

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Their function to feeding back information from a higher to a lower level is wider than that of forward projecting neurons, making excitatory synaptic contacts

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What are lateral connections?

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Where cortical areas are coupled at the same level in the hierarchy

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How can the hierarchal organisation chart be described?

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It holds dozens of levels that resemble a maze of steam pipes in an old industrial plant, highly intricate, with myriad bypass, shortcuts, and seemingly random additions

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How many areas of the cortex have been reported so far?

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1/3

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What does the top of the hierarchal figure represent?

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Either outside the cortex proper or onto regions in the frontal part of the brain and from there to the motor structures that execute the brain’s commands

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What does every cortical area do?

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Send it’s axon outputs out somewhere

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What is research uncertain of in terms of the connections between inferior temporal, posterior parietal, and prefrontal cortical regions?

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The uncertainty of whether forward and feedback cortico-cortical projections can be identified in the front of the brain

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What is important to note about visual stimuli?

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All areas at any one level are not simultaneously excited by visual stimuli

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Where do temporal differences remain evident in regards to cellular stream flow into V1?

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In the further processing stages, such that the frontal eye fields in the front of the brain receive visual information prior to areas V2 and V4 at the back

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What is the net-wave?

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The rapid increase in stimulus-triggered spiking propagates through the stations along the visual hierarchy without appreciably changing the steepness of the wave’s leading edge

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What is the detection of a net-wave deep in the cortex?

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It’s detected with a jitter of 10 msec or less

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What is the argument surrounding forward travelling net-wave?

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It can rapidly trigger quite complex, yet unconscious, behaviour, while consciousness depends on some sort of standing wave between the back and the front of the cortex

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Where are all sensory modalities relayed through?

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The thalamus on the way to the cortex

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What is the structure of the thalamus?

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It is subdivided into discrete nuclei, each with their own, separate input and output channels and unique functional correlates

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What is the largest nucleus?

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Pulvinar

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What is the structure of the primate pulvinar?

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It is partitioned into four divisions with at least three separate visual maps

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What is an example of engaging the switching capacity of the thalamic region?

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Staring intently at foliage because you might have seen somebody hiding there or scanning the road ahead of you

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How do core cells operate?

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They aggregate in clusters and target precisely delineated recipient zones in the intermediate layers of cortical regions

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Where to matrix projection cells reach?

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In a more diffuse manner into the superficial layers of several adjacent cortical areas

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What is the role of the matrix?

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Might help assemble the widespread neuronal coalitions that mediate the multi-faceted aspects of any conscious percept

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How is the primary forward response modulated?

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Through mediation of some of the observable nonclassical receptive field effect via feedback from the middle temporal cortex to V1

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What are forward projections thought as?

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Strong, driving connections

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What does feedback modulate?

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The response of recipient cells, setting the magnitude of the neuronal response

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What is the rule for weaker, modulatory connections?

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A thalamic input into layer 4 or the lower part of layer 3 is usually a strong connection

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What is the key emerging conclusion when considering the connections in the brain as binary?

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There appear to be no strong loops in the cortico-thalamic system meaning there are no thalamic or cortical areas that are directly or indirectly, recurrently connected via strong projections

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What do strong reciprocal connections promote?

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Uncontrollable oscillations such as epilepsy

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What is an example of a key experiment in visual abilities?

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The visual abilities of monkeys with inferotemporal lesions were compared against those with destruction of their posterior parietal cortex

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What has the data from neurological patients with focal brain damage concluded?

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That IT contains circuitry specialised for the discrimination and recognition of objects while PP is necessary for computing spatial relationships to guide the eyes or a limb to a target.

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What is another name for the ventral and dorsal streams respectively?

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Vision for perception AND vision for action pathways

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Where do the cross linkages for the ventral and dorsal streams lie?

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At the interface between the two pathways

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What belongs to the frontal lobes?

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Motor, pre-motor, prefrontal & anterior cingulate cortices

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When does the prefrontal cortex act solely by itself?

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For high-level, executive functions

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When does the PFC increase in size?

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During phylogenetic development

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What are the frontal lobes related to?

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Basal ganglia, large sub-cortical structures,

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How does the basal ganglia project back to the cortex?

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Via intermediate stations that include the thalamus

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What is the basal ganglia drastically affected by?

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Disorders such as Parkinson’s or Huntington’s disease, associated with severe motor deficits, up to a total loss of movement

41
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What isn’t thoroughly suppressed by V1 inactivation?

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Cortical motion area MT

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What is a key observation found in regards to MT cells?

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Lesioning the corresponding regions in both V1 and the colliculus eliminates all responsiveness from MT cells

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What is the subcortical bypass adequate for?

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Supporting minimal, unconscious visuo-motor behaviours of patients whose V1 has been destroyed, yet insufficient to power the ventral pathway responsible for conscious object vision

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What is a fair comparison between V1 and V2?`

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V2 has the same skewed topographic representation found in V1, with many more neurons dealing with central than peripheral vision

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What do modern cartographic techniques utilising fMRIs confirm?

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The human occipital lobe holds multiple representations of the world, similar to those that are discovered in a monkey using microelectrodes

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What do V2 cells respond best to?

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Short bars, lines or edges

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What can illusory edges do?

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Delineate a shape, such as a triangle, that doesn’t exist on the page

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What are illusory edge neurons responsible for?

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Identifying partially occluded figures

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What reinforces the physiological data on the role V2 plays in vision?

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Behavioural evidence from monkeys whose V2 has been selectively destroyed

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What regions have their own retinotopic representation?

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V3A and V4

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What are colours the product of?

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The mind and not of the external world

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What does perceived hue depend on?

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The relative activity in the different cone photoreceptor populations

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What does colour constancy entail?

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Large changes in the spectral composition of the light source causes only minor changes in the colour appearance of objects

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What is the difference between V1 cells and V4 cells in terms of their relationship with wavelengths?

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A double-opponent cell in V1 may fire whenever a set amount of, say, middle wavelength light impinges onto its receptive field, whereas a V4 cell responds to the middle wavelength region of the spectrum within its receptive field relative to the spectral distribution of stimuli in an extended region of the entire visual field

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What happens to patients with achromatopsia?

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Hue perception is gone

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What has functional brain imaging established?

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A number of regions in the cortex that are selectively active during colour perception and colour judgements

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What is negative afterimage?

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When you stare at a saturated colour and then look at a uniform grey field, you will see its complementary colour

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What does the fMRI activity in a part of the fusiform gyrus following the percept showcase?

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Increasing in response to the virtual colour afterimage and decreasing back to baseline within a short time after the inducing colour patch has been removed

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What is colour-hearing?

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Certain words, sounds, or music consistently evoke particular colours

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What is the similarities between synaesthesia and colour hearing?

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It is automatic, involuntary, and stable across many years

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What does the V1 and V2 fMRI response reinforce?

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The specificity of the fusiform region for hue perception but also the claim that the NCC for colour does not have to relay on V1 activity

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What is the middle temporal area?

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A small piece of cortical real estate, the size of a thumbnail

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What happens to neurons in MT cells?

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They retain selectivity over a considerable range of speeds, stimulus sizes, and positions

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Where were MT cells only found in past research?

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In corpses

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What has improved the finding of localised MT cells?

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MRI

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How can a motion aftereffect be induced?

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To gaze, for a minute or so, at the centre of a rotating disk with spirals painted on top

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How can the neural substrate of illusory motion be visualised?

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Using fMRI which illustrates the subtlety of the mind-body interface

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What can cause akinetopsia?

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The loss of MT and other nearby regions on both sides of her brain to a vascular disorder

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How does a monkey react when a cell responds to a larger than average number of spikes?

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The monkey tended to choose that cell’s preferred direction of motion on that trial, which implies that behaviour can be influenced by individual cortical neurons

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What have modelling studies shown monkey decision being based on?

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The weakly correlated activity of less than 100 MT cell

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What is functional microstimulation a testimony of?

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The columnar properties for motion

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What is the consequence of microstimulation equivalent to?

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Increasing the motion signal in the upward direction by some fixed amount

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What is the electrical current of microstimulation too weak for?

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Triggering a precept, such as a moving phosphene, but it can influence its attributes

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What is the structure of the MT area?

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A columnar structure for direction-of-motion, suggesting that this attribute is made explicit in the firing rate of these cells

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What type of interactions do MT cells have to take with other regions for motion awareness to occur?

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Bidirectional

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Where do MT cells project?

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Not only out of the cortex, but also to the frontal eye fields and to several motion-sensitive areas in the posterior parietal cortex, including the lateral and ventral intraparietal areas and the medial superior temporal area

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What do the cells in MST respond selectively to?

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Different optical flow fields generated by navigating through the environment

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What is a sufficient method of mediating a rapid behavioural response?

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The advancing front of the net-wave triggered by motion onset and flowing from the retina through V1 and into MT and beyond to other dorsal regions

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What does the external electrical current delivered to the MT generate?

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A bias signal that influenced the behaviour and the depth perception of the animal, depending on the disparity tuning of the neurons near the electrode tip

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What is the posterior parietal cortex implicated in doing?

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Combining and expressing position information and in relating it to action

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What is PP subdivided into?

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Half a dozen functionally distinct regions in the macaque, and more refined techniques keep uncovering additional ones

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What type of movements to cells encode in monkeys?

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Movements that they plan to execute within the next few seconds

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What is neglect and optic ataxia characterised by?

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  • Severe disturbances of spatial awareness

- Persistent inability to reach out or point to targets

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What is the gain field strategy?

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The output, or gain, of the receptive field is modulated by the position of the eye

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How can location be recovered?

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By combining signals from many such cells

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How can relative position be tested?

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By assessing the coordinate system underlying spatial awareness and contrasting them with those controlling visuo-motor behaviour

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How do place cells operate in the rodent hippocampus?

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They fire maximally when the animal is physically within a particular region in its environment

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What is the pathway of the ventral stream outside of the V1?

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A series of stages through V2, V4 and the posterior inferotemporal cortex, until it arrives at the most forward, anterior part of the inferior temporal cortex

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What does the feedback from the medial temporal lobe serve to?

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Retrieve visual memories and load them into IT

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