The Segmentation of Proto-Objects in the Monkey Primary Visual Cortex

Matthew W. Self, Danique Jeurissen, Anne F. van Ham, Bram van Vugt, Jasper Poort, Pieter R. Roelfsema

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Abstract

Self et al. show that V1 neural activity initially represents proto-objects. After monkeys learn to discriminate complex shapes, proto-ground ground regions become suppressed, so that late V1 activity strongly resembles our global perception of figures and correlates with behavior.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1019-1029.e4
Number of pages15
JournalCurrent biology
Volume29
Issue number6
Early online date7 Mar 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Mar 2019

Keywords

  • V1
  • attention
  • choice probability
  • feedback
  • figure-ground organization
  • learning
  • scene segmentation
  • shape perception
  • vision
  • visual perception

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