Motion direction, speed and orientation in binocular matching

Raymond van Ee and Barton L. Anderson ()
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Raymond van Ee: MIT Deparment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Barton L. Anderson: MIT Deparment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Nature, 2001, vol. 410, issue 6829, 690-694

Abstract: Abstract The spatial differences between the images seen by the two eyes, called binocular disparities, can be used to recover the volumetric (three-dimensional) aspects of a scene. The computation of disparity depends upon the correct identification of corresponding features in the two images. Understanding what image features are used by the brain to solve this matching problem is one of the main issues in stereoscopic vision1. Many cortical neurons in visual areas V1 (ref. 2), MT (refs 3, 4) and MST (refs 5, 6) that are tuned to binocular disparity are also tuned to orientation, motion direction and speed. Although psychophysical work has shown that motion direction7 can facilitate binocular matching, the psychophysical literature on the role of orientation is mixed8,9, and it has been argued that speed differences are ineffective in aiding correspondence7. Here we use a different psychophysical paradigm to show that the visual system uses similarities in orientation, motion direction and speed to achieve binocular correspondence. These results indicate that cells that multiplex orientation, motion direction, speed and binocular disparity may help to solve the binocular matching problem.

Date: 2001
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