Two neural pathways for Fourier and non-Fourier motion

Author

Papathomas, T.V. ; McGowan, J.W. ; Chubb, C. ; Gorea, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

14-15 Mar 1996

Firstpage

42

Lastpage

43

Abstract

Humans can perceive non-Fourier visual motion, i.e., motion that contains no coherent structure in the distribution of stimulus energy in the spatiotemporal frequency domain. The question that still remains unanswered is whether this non-Fourier motion is analyzed by a separate neural pathway or whether there is a unique pathway that is responsible for both Fourier and non-Fourier motion analysis. We present experimental evidence that strongly supports the separate-pathway hypothesis, and we suggest a possible computational model that can account for the data

Keywords

neurophysiology; physiological models; visual perception; Fourier motion; computational model; human perception; neural pathways; nonFourier motion; separate-pathway hypothesis; spatiotemporal frequency domain; stimulus energy; visual motion; Computational modeling; Data mining; Frequency domain analysis; Humans; Motion analysis; Neural pathways; Power engineering and energy; Psychology; Spatiotemporal phenomena; Visual system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioengineering Conference, 1996., Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Twenty-Second Annual Northeast

Conference_Location

New Brunswick, NJ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3204-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NEBC.1996.503208

Filename

503208