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Movshon et al. suggest that we found more pattern cells in alert monkeys because a “third component” in our stimuli “would elicit pattern-like responses from all MT cells.” Although this explanation sounds plausible, it has been tested directly and found to be wrong. Stoner and Albright4 compared, for single MT neurons in alert monkeys, the responses to plaid stimuli with and without the third component. They found that introducing the third component caused MT responses to become less pattern-like and more component-like (Fig. 3b in ref. 4). Moreover, Stoner and Albright's third component was greater in amplitude than ours, so the explanation of Movshon et al. cannot be right.

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Pack, C., Berezovskii, V. & Born, R. Reply to 'Cortical responses to visual motion in alert and anesthetized monkeys'. Nat Neurosci 6, 3–4 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0103-3b

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