| Paper: | PS-1A.59 | ||
| Session: | Poster Session 1A | ||
| Location: | H Lichthof | ||
| Session Time: | Saturday, September 14, 16:30 - 19:30 | ||
| Presentation Time: | Saturday, September 14, 16:30 - 19:30 | ||
| Presentation: | Poster | ||
| Publication: | 2019 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, 13-16 September 2019, Berlin, Germany | ||
| Paper Title: | A Causal Effect of Macaque V2 in a Coarse Disparity Discrimination Task | ||
| Manuscript: | Click here to view manuscript | ||
| License: |  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.32470/CCN.2019.1326-0 | ||
| Authors: | Katrina Quinn, University of Tuebingen, Germany; Bruce Cumming, National Institute of Health, United States; Hendrikje Nienborg, University of Tuebingen, Germany | ||
| Abstract: | Many V2 neurons are selective for binocular disparity. V2 is also the earliest site in the visual processing hierarchy for which systematic correlations across the population between neural responses and an animal’s behavioral choice in disparity based tasks have been observed. However, while these choice correlations suggest a link between the neural activity and perceptual choice, it has long been recognized that they do not establish a causal relationship. Here, we sought to test whether macaque V2 plays a causal role on coarse disparity judgements. We used microstimulation on disparity selective sites in V2 whilst animals performed a coarse disparity discrimination task. We found that microstimulation led to a systematic shift of the psychometric function towards the preferred disparity of the stimulated site, supporting a causal role for V2 neurons in disparity discrimination. | ||