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Nature Neuroscience  8, 591 - 593 (2005)
Published online: 17 April 2005; | doi:10.1038/nn1446

Neurons in macaque area V4 acquire directional tuning after adaptation to motion stimuli

Andreas S Tolias1, Georgios A Keliris1, Stelios M Smirnakis1, 2 & Nikos K Logothetis1

1  Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstrasse 38, Tuebingen, Germany.

2  Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.

Correspondence should be addressed to Andreas S Tolias andreas.tolias@tuebingen.mpg.de
Neurons in area V4 of the macaque are generally not selective for direction of motion, as judged from their response to directional stimuli presented after a baseline condition devoid of movement. We used motion adaptation to investigate whether stimulation history influences direction-of-motion selectivity. We found that classically nondirectional V4 neurons develop direction-of-motion selectivity after adaptation, an observation that underscores the dynamic nature of functional cortical architecture.


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