Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Joint coding of shape and blur in area V4

  • Timothy D. Oleskiw,
  • Amy Nowack,
  • Anitha Pasupathy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02438-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Blurred edges of objects can aid in depth perception and segmentation, yet how it is combined with shape information in the visual pathway is unknown. Here the authors report that neurons in higher visual area V4 represent both object shape and boundary blur, controlling for stimulus size, intensity and curvature.