Spatio–temporal frequency domains and their relation to cytochrome oxidase staining in cat visual cortex

Doron Shoham, Mark Hübener, Silke Schulze, Amiram Grinvald and Tobias Bonhoeffer
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Doron Shoham: Weizmann Institute of Science
Mark Hübener: Am Klopferspitz ISA
Silke Schulze: Am Klopferspitz ISA
Amiram Grinvald: Weizmann Institute of Science
Tobias Bonhoeffer: Am Klopferspitz ISA

Nature, 1997, vol. 385, issue 6616, 529-533

Abstract: Abstract Spatial and temporal frequencies are important attributes of the visual scene. It is a long-standing question whether these attributes are represented in a spatially organized way in cat primary visual cortex1–4. Using optical imaging of intrinsic signals5–10, we show here that grating stimuli of different spatial frequencies drifting at various speeds produce distinct activity patterns. Rather than observing a map of continuously changing spatial frequency preference across the cortical surface, we found only two distinct sets of domains, one preferring low spatial frequency and high speed, and the other high spatial frequency and low speed. We compared the arrangement of these spatio–temporal frequency domains with the cytochrome oxidase staining pattern, which, based on work in primate striate cortex, is thought to reflect the partition of the visual cortex into different processing streams. We found that the cytochrome oxidase blobs in cat striate cortex coincide with domains engaged in the processing of low spatial and high temporal frequency contents of the visual scene. Together with other recent results11, our data suggest that spatio–temporal frequency domains are a manifestation of parallel streams in cat visual cortex, with distinct patterns of thalamic inputs and extrastriate projections.

Date: 1997
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