Volume 5, Number 1, Article 3, Pages 28-33 doi:10.1167/5.1.3 http://journalofvision.org/5/1/3/ ISSN 1534-7362
Economy of scale: A motion sensor with variable speed tuning
John A. Perrone
Department of Psychology, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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Abstract

We have previously presented a model of how neurons in the primate middle temporal (MT/V5) area can develop selectivity for image speed by using common properties of the V1 neurons that precede them in the visual motion pathway (J. A. Perrone & A. Thiele, 2002). The motion sensor developed in this model is based on two broad classes of V1 complex neurons (sustained and transient). The S-type neuron has low-pass temporal frequency tuning, p(ω), and the T-type has band-pass temporal frequency tuning, m(ω). The outputs from the S and T neurons are combined in a special way (weighted intersection mechanism [WIM]) to generate a sensor tuned to a particular speed, v. Here I go on to show that if the S and T temporal frequency tuning functions have a particular form (i.e., p(ω)/(m(ω) = k/ω), then a motion sensor with variable speed tuning can be generated from just two V1 neurons. A simple scaling of the S- or T-type neuron output before it is incorporated into the WIM model produces a motion sensor that can be tuned to a wide continuous range of optimal speeds.

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History
Received June 24, 2004; published January 26, 2005
Citation
Perrone, J. A. (2005). Economy of scale: A motion sensor with variable speed tuning. Journal of Vision, 5(1):3, 28-33, http://journalofvision.org/5/1/3/, doi:10.1167/5.1.3.
Keywords
speed tuning, temporal frequency tuning, V1, MT, motion model
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