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Chung YW, Shin SY, Yim HB. Macular superficial vascular density on optical coherence tomography angiography in children with unilateral anisometropic and bilateral hyperopic amblyopia. Sci Rep 2023; 13:12879. [PMID: 37553433 PMCID: PMC10409713 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-40025-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2023] [Accepted: 08/03/2023] [Indexed: 08/10/2023] Open
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We analyzed whether macular superficial vascular density (SVD) and foveal vascular zone (FAZ) on optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) can distinguish between bilateral ametropic and anisometropic amblyopia. We included 42, 33, and 50 eyes in the bilateral ametropic amblyopia, anisometropic amblyopia, and normal control groups, respectively. Using macular swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography, we measured and analyzed the superficial FAZ areas and five sectoral macular SVDs after magnification correction. The anisometropic amblyopic eye group showed significantly increased foveal SVDs (p < 0.001) and significantly decreased superficial FAZ areas (p < 0.001), compared with the remaining groups. Additionally, the bilateral ametropic amblyopia group had significantly decreased nasal SVDs. SVDs and superficial FAZ areas differed among hyperopic amblyopia subtypes. These findings may reflect vascular distribution differences and macular changes in hyperopic amblyopia subtypes compared with normal eyes.
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- Yeon Woong Chung
- Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science, College of Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science, College of Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science, College of Medicine, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
- Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science, College of Medicine, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, #56 Dongsu-ro, Bupyeong-gu, Seoul, 21431, Republic of Korea.
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Portengen BL, Porro GL, Imhof SM, Naber M. The Trade-Off Between Luminance and Color Contrast Assessed With Pupil Responses. Transl Vis Sci Technol 2023; 12:15. [PMID: 36622687 PMCID: PMC9838585 DOI: 10.1167/tvst.12.1.15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Purpose A scene consisting of a white stimulus on a black background incorporates strong luminance contrast. When both stimulus and background receive different colors, luminance contrast decreases but color contrast increases. Here, we sought to characterize the pattern of stimulus salience across varying trade-offs of color and luminance contrasts by using the pupil light response. Methods Three experiments were conducted with 17, 16, and 17 healthy adults. For all experiments, a flickering stimulus (2 Hz; alternating color to black) was presented superimposed on a background with a complementary color to the stimulus (i.e., opponency colors in human color perception: blue and yellow for Experiment 1, red and green for Experiment 2, and equiluminant red and green for Experiment 3). Background luminance varied between 0% and 45% to trade off luminance and color contrast with the stimulus. By comparing the locus of the optimal trade-off between color and luminance across different color axes, we explored the generality of the trade-off. Results The strongest pupil responses were found when a substantial amount of color contrast was present (at the expense of luminance contrast). Pupil response amplitudes increased by 15% to 30% after the addition of color contrast. An optimal pupillary responsiveness was reached at a background luminance setting of 20% to 35% color contrast across several color axes. Conclusions These findings suggest that a substantial component of pupil light responses incorporates color processing. More sensitive pupil responses and more salient stimulus designs can be achieved by adding subtle levels of color contrast between stimulus and background. Translational Relevance More robust pupil responses will enhance tests of the visual field with pupil perimetry.
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- Brendan L. Portengen
- Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands,Department of Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Shah S, Shah M, Purohit A, Khanguda V. Perceptual learning with hand - eye coordination as an effective tool for managing amblyopia: A prospective study. Indian J Ophthalmol 2022; 70:3630-3633. [PMID: 36190061 PMCID: PMC9789846 DOI: 10.4103/ijo.ijo_852_22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Purpose Amblyopia is a serious condition resulting in monocular impairment of vision. Although traditional treatment improves vision, we attempted to explore the results of perceptual learning in this study. Methods This prospective cohort study included all patients with amblyopia who were subjected to perceptual learning. The presenting data on vision, stereopsis and contrast sensitivity were documented in a pretested online format, and the pre- and post-treatment information was compared using descriptive, cross-tabulation and comparative methods on SPSS 2.2. The mean values were obtained, and P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results The cohort consisted of 47 patients (23 females and 24 males) with a mean age of 14.11 ± 7.13 years. A statistically significant improvement was detected in visual acuity after the perceptual learning session, and the median follow-up period was 17 days. Also, significant improvements were observed in stereopsis but not in the visual outcomes among the age groups. Conclusion Perceptual learning with hand-eye coordination is an effective method for managing amblyopia. This approach can improve vision in all age groups. However, visual improvement is significantly influenced by ocular alignment.
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- Drashti Netralaya, Dahod, Gujarat, India,Correspondence to: Dr. Mehul Shah, Drashti Netralaya, Chakalia Road, Dahod, Gujarat, India. E-mail:
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Ramezanpour H, Blizzard S, Kehoe DH, Fallah M. Oculomotor system can differentially process red and green colors during saccade programming in the presence of a competing distractor. Exp Brain Res 2022; 240:2847-2860. [PMID: 36100754 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-022-06459-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2022] [Accepted: 09/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Selective attention filters irrelevant information entering our brain to allow for fine-tuning of the relevant information processing. In the visual domain, shifts of attention are most often followed by a saccadic eye movement to objects and places of high relevance. Recent studies have shown that the stimulus color can affect saccade target selection and saccade trajectories. While those saccade modulations are based on perceptual color space, the level in the visual processing hierarchy at which color selection biases saccade programming remains unclear. As color has also been shown to influence manual response inhibition which is a key function of the prefrontal cortex, we hypothesized that the effects of color on executive functions would also inherently affect saccade programming. To test this hypothesis, we measured behavioral performance and saccade metrics during a modified saccadic Stroop task which reflects competition between color words ("RED" and "GREEN") and their color at the level of the prefrontal cortex. Our results revealed that the oculomotor system can differentially process red and green colors when planning a saccade in the presence of a competing distractor.
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- Hamidreza Ramezanpour
- Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
- School of Kinesiology and Health Science, Faculty of Health, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
- VISTA: Vision Science to Application, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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- Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
- School of Kinesiology and Health Science, Faculty of Health, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
- School of Kinesiology and Health Science, Faculty of Health, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
- VISTA: Vision Science to Application, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
- School of Kinesiology and Health Science, Faculty of Health, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
- VISTA: Vision Science to Application, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada.
- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, College of Biological Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada.
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Grünert U, Martin PR. Morphology, Molecular Characterization, and Connections of Ganglion Cells in Primate Retina. Annu Rev Vis Sci 2021; 7:73-103. [PMID: 34524877 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-vision-100419-115801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The eye sends information about the visual world to the brain on over 20 parallel signal pathways, each specialized to signal features such as spectral reflection (color), edges, and motion of objects in the environment. Each pathway is formed by the axons of a separate type of retinal output neuron (retinal ganglion cell). In this review, we summarize what is known about the excitatory retinal inputs, brain targets, and gene expression patterns of ganglion cells in humans and nonhuman primates. We describe how most ganglion cell types receive their input from only one or two of the 11 types of cone bipolar cell and project selectively to only one or two target regions in the brain. We also highlight how genetic methods are providing tools to characterize ganglion cells and establish cross-species homologies.
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- Ulrike Grünert
- Save Sight Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia; , .,Sydney Node, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
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- Save Sight Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia; , .,Sydney Node, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
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Barnett MA, Aguirre GK, Brainard D. A quadratic model captures the human V1 response to variations in chromatic direction and contrast. eLife 2021; 10:65590. [PMID: 34342580 PMCID: PMC8452309 DOI: 10.7554/elife.65590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2020] [Accepted: 07/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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An important goal for vision science is to develop quantitative models of the representation of visual signals at post-receptoral sites. To this end, we develop the quadratic color model (QCM) and examine its ability to account for the BOLD fMRI response in human V1 to spatially-uniform, temporal chromatic modulations that systematically vary in chromatic direction and contrast. We find that the QCM explains the same, cross-validated variance as a conventional general linear model, with far fewer free parameters. The QCM generalizes to allow prediction of V1 responses to a large range of modulations. We replicate the results for each subject and find good agreement across both replications and subjects. We find that within the LM cone contrast plane, V1 is most sensitive to L-M contrast modulations and least sensitive to L+M contrast modulations. Within V1, we observe little to no change in chromatic sensitivity as a function of eccentricity.
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- Michael A Barnett
- Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
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- Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
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Zlatkova MB, Racheva K, Totev T, Mihaylova M, Hristov I, Anderson RS. Resolution acuity and spatial summation of chromatic mechanisms in the peripheral retina. JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. A, OPTICS, IMAGE SCIENCE, AND VISION 2021; 38:1003-1014. [PMID: 34263756 DOI: 10.1364/josaa.418073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2020] [Accepted: 05/28/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Green stimuli are more difficult to detect than red stimuli in the retinal periphery, as reported previously. We examined the spatial characteristics of chromatic mechanisms using stimuli, modulated from an achromatic background to each pole of the "red-green" cardinal axis in DKL space at 20 deg eccentricity. The "blue-yellow" cardinal axis was also studied for comparison. By measuring both grating discrimination at the resolution limit (resolution acuity) and spatial summation, assessed by the Michaelis-Menten function, we demonstrated a marked "red-green" asymmetry. The resolution acuity was worse and spatial summation more extended for "green" compared to "red" stimuli, while showing significant individual variations. Ricco's area was also measured, but not determined for "green" spots because of the poor small stimuli detection. These results cannot be explained by differences in L- and M-cone numerosity and/or spatial arrangement, but rather have postreceptoral origin, probably at the cortical level.
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Horwitz GD. Temporal filtering of luminance and chromaticity in macaque visual cortex. iScience 2021; 24:102536. [PMID: 34189430 PMCID: PMC8219838 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2020] [Revised: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 05/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Contrast sensitivity peaks near 10 Hz for luminance modulations and at lower frequencies for modulations between equiluminant lights. This difference is rooted in retinal filtering, but additional filtering occurs in the cerebral cortex. To measure the cortical contributions to luminance and chromatic temporal contrast sensitivity, signals in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) were compared to the behavioral contrast sensitivity of macaque monkeys. Long wavelength-sensitive (L) and medium wavelength-sensitive (M) cones were modulated in phase to produce a luminance modulation (L + M) or in counterphase to produce a chromatic modulation (L - M). The sensitivity of LGN neurons was well matched to behavioral sensitivity at low temporal frequencies but was approximately 7 times greater at high temporal frequencies. Similar results were obtained for L + M and L - M modulations. These results show that differences in the shapes of the luminance and chromatic temporal contrast sensitivity functions are due almost entirely to pre-cortical mechanisms.
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- Gregory D. Horwitz
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Washington National Primate Research Center, University of Washington, 1959 N.E. Pacific Street, HSB I-714, Box 357290, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Kremers J, Aher AJ, Popov Y, Mirsalehi M, Huchzermeyer C. The influence of temporal frequency and stimulus size on the relative contribution of luminance and L-/M-cone opponent mechanisms in heterochromatic flicker ERGs. Doc Ophthalmol 2021; 143:207-220. [PMID: 33886039 PMCID: PMC8494685 DOI: 10.1007/s10633-021-09837-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2021] [Accepted: 04/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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PURPOSE To study the effect of stimulus size and temporal frequency on the relative contribution of luminance and L-/M-cone opponent signals in the ERG. METHODS In four healthy, color normal subjects, ERG responses to heterochromatic stimuli with sinusoidal, counter-phase modulation of red and green LEDs were measured. By inverse variation of red and green contrasts, we varied luminance contrast while keeping L-/M-cone opponent chromatic contrast constant. The first harmonic components in the full field ERGs are independent of stimulus contrast at 12 Hz, while responses to 36 Hz stimuli vary, reaching a minimum close to isoluminance. It was assumed that ERG responses reflect L-/M-cone opponency at 12 Hz and luminance at 36 Hz. In this study, we modeled the influence of temporal frequency on the relative contribution of these mechanisms at intermediate frequencies, measured the influence of stimulus size on model parameters, and analyzed the second harmonic component at 12 Hz. RESULTS The responses at all frequencies and stimulus sizes could be described by a linear vector addition of luminance and L-/M-cone opponent reflecting ERGs. The contribution of the luminance mechanism increased with increasing temporal frequency and with increasing stimulus size, whereas the gain of the L-/M-cone opponent mechanism was independent of stimulus size and was larger at lower temporal frequencies. Thus, the luminance mechanism dominated at lower temporal frequencies with large stimuli. At 12 Hz, the second harmonic component reflected the luminance mechanism. CONCLUSIONS The ERGs to heterochromatic stimuli can be fully described in terms of linear combinations of responses in the (magnocellular) luminance and the (parvocellular) L-/M-opponent retino-geniculate pathways. The non-invasive study of these pathways in human subjects may have implications for basic research and for clinical research.
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- Jan Kremers
- Section for Retinal Physiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Schwabachanlage 6, 91054, Erlangen, Germany.
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- Section for Retinal Physiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Schwabachanlage 6, 91054, Erlangen, Germany
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- Section for Retinal Physiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Schwabachanlage 6, 91054, Erlangen, Germany
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- Section for Retinal Physiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Schwabachanlage 6, 91054, Erlangen, Germany
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- Section for Retinal Physiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Schwabachanlage 6, 91054, Erlangen, Germany
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Color Tuning of Face-Selective Neurons in Macaque Inferior Temporal Cortex. eNeuro 2021; 8:ENEURO.0395-20.2020. [PMID: 33483324 PMCID: PMC8174038 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0395-20.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2020] [Revised: 12/08/2020] [Accepted: 12/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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What role does color play in the neural representation of complex shapes? We approached the question by measuring color responses of face-selective neurons, using fMRI-guided microelectrode recording of the middle and anterior face patches of inferior temporal cortex (IT) in rhesus macaques. Face-selective cells responded weakly to pure color (equiluminant) photographs of faces. But many of the cells nonetheless showed a bias for warm colors when assessed using images that preserved the luminance contrast relationships of the original photographs. This bias was also found for non-face-selective neurons. Fourier analysis uncovered two components: the first harmonic, accounting for most of the tuning, was biased toward reddish colors, corresponding to the L>M pole of the L-M cardinal axis. The second harmonic showed a bias for modulation between blue and yellow colors axis, corresponding to the S-cone axis. To test what role face-selective cells play in behavior, we related the information content of the neural population with the distribution of face colors. The analyses show that face-selective cells are not optimally tuned to discriminate face colors, but are consistent with the idea that face-selective cells contribute selectively to processing the green-red contrast of faces. The research supports the hypothesis that color-specific information related to the discrimination of objects, including faces, is handled by neural circuits that are independent of shape-selective cortex, as captured by the multistage parallel processing framework of IT (Lafer-Sousa and Conway, 2013).
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Solomon SG. Retinal ganglion cells and the magnocellular, parvocellular, and koniocellular subcortical visual pathways from the eye to the brain. HANDBOOK OF CLINICAL NEUROLOGY 2021; 178:31-50. [PMID: 33832683 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-821377-3.00018-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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In primates including humans, most retinal ganglion cells send signals to the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of the thalamus. The anatomical and functional properties of the two major pathways through the LGN, the parvocellular (P) and magnocellular (M) pathways, are now well understood. Neurones in these pathways appear to convey a filtered version of the retinal image to primary visual cortex for further analysis. The properties of the P-pathway suggest it is important for high spatial acuity and red-green color vision, while those of the M-pathway suggest it is important for achromatic visual sensitivity and motion vision. Recent work has sharpened our understanding of how these properties are built in the retina, and described subtle but important nonlinearities that shape the signals that cortex receives. In addition to the P- and M-pathways, other retinal ganglion cells also project to the LGN. These ganglion cells are larger than those in the P- and M-pathways, have different retinal connectivity, and project to distinct regions of the LGN, together forming heterogenous koniocellular (K) pathways. Recent work has started to reveal the properties of these K-pathways, in the retina and in the LGN. The functional properties of K-pathways are more complex than those in the P- and M-pathways, and the K-pathways are likely to have a distinct contribution to vision. They provide a complementary pathway to the primary visual cortex, but can also send signals directly to extrastriate visual cortex. At the level of the LGN, many neurones in the K-pathways seem to integrate retinal with non-retinal inputs, and some may provide an early site of binocular convergence.
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- Samuel G Solomon
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
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Masri RA, Grünert U, Martin PR. Analysis of Parvocellular and Magnocellular Visual Pathways in Human Retina. J Neurosci 2020; 40:8132-8148. [PMID: 33009001 PMCID: PMC7574660 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1671-20.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2020] [Revised: 08/26/2020] [Accepted: 09/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Two main subcortical pathways serving conscious visual perception are the midget-parvocellular (P), and the parasol-magnocellular (M) pathways. It is generally accepted that the P pathway serves red-green color vision, but the relative contribution of P and M pathways to spatial vision is a long-standing and unresolved issue. Here, we mapped the spatial sampling properties of P and M pathways across the human retina. Data were obtained from immunolabeled vertical sections of six postmortem male and female human donor retinas and imaged using high-resolution microscopy. Cone photoreceptors, OFF-midget bipolar cells (P pathway), OFF-diffuse bipolar (DB) types DB3a and DB3b (M pathway), and ganglion cells were counted along the temporal horizontal meridian, taking foveal spatial distortions (postreceptoral displacements) into account. We found that the density of OFF-midget bipolar and OFF-midget ganglion cells can support one-to-one connections to 1.05-mm (3.6°) eccentricity. One-to-one connections of cones to OFF-midget bipolar cells are present to at least 10-mm (35°) eccentricity. The OFF-midget ganglion cell array acuity is well-matched to photopic spatial acuity measures throughout the central 35°, but the OFF-parasol array acuity is well below photopic spatial acuity, supporting the view that the P pathway underlies high-acuity spatial vision. Outside the fovea, array acuity of both OFF-midget and OFF-DB cells exceeds psychophysical measures of photopic spatial acuity. We conclude that parasol and midget pathway bipolar cells deliver high-acuity spatial signals to the inner plexiform layer, but outside the fovea, this spatial resolution is lost at the level of ganglion cells.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT We make accurate maps of the spatial density and distribution of neurons in the human retina to aid in understanding human spatial vision, interpretation of diagnostic tests, and the implementation of therapies for retinal diseases. Here, we map neurons involved with the midget-parvocellular (P pathway) and parasol-magnocellular (M pathway) through human retina. We find that P-type bipolar cells outnumber M-type bipolar cells at all eccentricities. We show that cone photoreceptors and P-type pathway bipolar cells are tightly connected throughout the retina, but that spatial resolution is lost at the level of the ganglion cells. Overall, the results support the view that the P pathway is specialized to serve both high acuity vision and red-green color vision.
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- Rania A Masri
- Faculty of Medicine and Health, Save Sight Institute and Discipline of Clinical Ophthalmology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, Australia
- Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, Australia
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health, Save Sight Institute and Discipline of Clinical Ophthalmology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, Australia
- Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, Australia
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health, Save Sight Institute and Discipline of Clinical Ophthalmology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, Australia
- Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, Australia
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Szatko KP, Korympidou MM, Ran Y, Berens P, Dalkara D, Schubert T, Euler T, Franke K. Neural circuits in the mouse retina support color vision in the upper visual field. Nat Commun 2020; 11:3481. [PMID: 32661226 PMCID: PMC7359335 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17113-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2019] [Accepted: 04/21/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Color vision is essential for an animal’s survival. It starts in the retina, where signals from different photoreceptor types are locally compared by neural circuits. Mice, like most mammals, are dichromatic with two cone types. They can discriminate colors only in their upper visual field. In the corresponding ventral retina, however, most cones display the same spectral preference, thereby presumably impairing spectral comparisons. In this study, we systematically investigated the retinal circuits underlying mouse color vision by recording light responses from cones, bipolar and ganglion cells. Surprisingly, most color-opponent cells are located in the ventral retina, with rod photoreceptors likely being involved. Here, the complexity of chromatic processing increases from cones towards the retinal output, where non-linear center-surround interactions create specific color-opponent output channels to the brain. This suggests that neural circuits in the mouse retina are tuned to extract color from the upper visual field, aiding robust detection of predators and ensuring the animal’s survival. Mice are able to discriminate colors, at least in the upper visual field. Here, the authors provide a comprehensive characterization of retinal circuits underlying this behavior.
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- Klaudia P Szatko
- Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.,Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.,Graduate Training Center of Neuroscience, International Max Planck Research School, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.,Graduate Training Center of Neuroscience, International Max Planck Research School, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.,Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.,Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.,Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.,Institute for Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Sorbonne Université, INSERM, CNRS, Institut de la Vision, Paris, France
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- Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.,Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.,Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.,Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. .,Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. .,Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
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Soto F, Hsiang JC, Rajagopal R, Piggott K, Harocopos GJ, Couch SM, Custer P, Morgan JL, Kerschensteiner D. Efficient Coding by Midget and Parasol Ganglion Cells in the Human Retina. Neuron 2020; 107:656-666.e5. [PMID: 32533915 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.05.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2020] [Revised: 04/24/2020] [Accepted: 05/20/2020] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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In humans, midget and parasol ganglion cells account for most of the input from the eyes to the brain. Yet, how they encode visual information is unknown. Here, we perform large-scale multi-electrode array recordings from retinas of treatment-naive patients who underwent enucleation surgery for choroidal malignant melanomas. We identify robust differences in the function of midget and parasol ganglion cells, consistent asymmetries between their ON and OFF types (that signal light increments and decrements, respectively) and divergence in the function of human versus non-human primate retinas. Our computational analyses reveal that the receptive fields of human midget and parasol ganglion cells divide naturalistic movies into adjacent spatiotemporal frequency domains with equal stimulus power, while the asymmetric response functions of their ON and OFF types simultaneously maximize stimulus coverage and information transmission and minimize metabolic cost. Thus, midget and parasol ganglion cells in the human retina efficiently encode our visual environment.
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- Florentina Soto
- John F. Hardesty, MD, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- John F. Hardesty, MD, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA; Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- John F. Hardesty, MD, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- John F. Hardesty, MD, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- John F. Hardesty, MD, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- John F. Hardesty, MD, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- John F. Hardesty, MD, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- John F. Hardesty, MD, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- John F. Hardesty, MD, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA; Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA.
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Grünert U, Martin PR. Cell types and cell circuits in human and non-human primate retina. Prog Retin Eye Res 2020; 78:100844. [PMID: 32032773 DOI: 10.1016/j.preteyeres.2020.100844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2019] [Revised: 01/28/2020] [Accepted: 01/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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This review summarizes our current knowledge of primate including human retina focusing on bipolar, amacrine and ganglion cells and their connectivity. We have two main motivations in writing. Firstly, recent progress in non-invasive imaging methods to study retinal diseases mean that better understanding of the primate retina is becoming an important goal both for basic and for clinical sciences. Secondly, genetically modified mice are increasingly used as animal models for human retinal diseases. Thus, it is important to understand to which extent the retinas of primates and rodents are comparable. We first compare cell populations in primate and rodent retinas, with emphasis on how the fovea (despite its small size) dominates the neural landscape of primate retina. We next summarise what is known, and what is not known, about the postreceptoral neurone populations in primate retina. The inventories of bipolar and ganglion cells in primates are now nearing completion, comprising ~12 types of bipolar cell and at least 17 types of ganglion cell. Primate ganglion cells show clear differences in dendritic field size across the retina, and their morphology differs clearly from that of mouse retinal ganglion cells. Compared to bipolar and ganglion cells, amacrine cells show even higher morphological diversity: they could comprise over 40 types. Many amacrine types appear conserved between primates and mice, but functions of only a few types are understood in any primate or non-primate retina. Amacrine cells appear as the final frontier for retinal research in monkeys and mice alike.
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- Ulrike Grünert
- The University of Sydney, Save Sight Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function, Sydney Node, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia.
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- The University of Sydney, Save Sight Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function, Sydney Node, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia
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Gopal SKS, Kelkar J, Kelkar A, Pandit A. Simplified updates on the pathophysiology and recent developments in the treatment of amblyopia: A review. Indian J Ophthalmol 2020; 67:1392-1399. [PMID: 31436180 PMCID: PMC6727694 DOI: 10.4103/ijo.ijo_11_19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Amblyopia is the most common cause of monocular visual impairment affecting 2-5% of the general population. Amblyopia is a developmental cortical disorder of the visual pathway essentially due to abnormal visual stimulus, reaching the binocular cortical cells, which may be multivariate. Ganglion cells are of two types: parvocellular (P cells) and magnocellular (M cells); they are the first step where the light energy is converted in to neural impulse. P cells are involved in fine visual acuity, fine stereopsis, and color vision and M cells are involved in gross stereopsis and movement recognition. Strabismus, refractive error, cataract, and ptosis, occurring during critical period are highly amblyogenic. The critical period extends from birth to 7--8 years. The earlier the clinically significant refractive error and strabismus are detected and treated, the greater the likelihood of preventing amblyopia. Treatment for amblyopia in children includes: optical correction of significant refractive errors, patching, pharmacological treatment, and alternative therapies which include: vision therapy, binocular therapy, and liquid crystal display eyeglasses are newer treatment modalities for amblyopia. Age of starting the treatment is not predictive of outcome, instituting treatment on detection and early detection plays a role in achieving better outcomes. This review aims to give a simplified update on amblyopia, which will be of use to a clinician, in understanding the pathophysiology of the complex condition. We also share the cortical aspects of amblyopia and give recent developments in the treatment of amblyopia.
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- Santhan K S Gopal
- Kamala Nethralaya Eye Clinic and Surgical Centre, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- National Institute of Ophthalmology, Maharashtra, India
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- National Institute of Ophthalmology, Maharashtra, India
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Thoreson WB, Dacey DM. Diverse Cell Types, Circuits, and Mechanisms for Color Vision in the Vertebrate Retina. Physiol Rev 2019; 99:1527-1573. [PMID: 31140374 DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00027.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Synaptic interactions to extract information about wavelength, and thus color, begin in the vertebrate retina with three classes of light-sensitive cells: rod photoreceptors at low light levels, multiple types of cone photoreceptors that vary in spectral sensitivity, and intrinsically photosensitive ganglion cells that contain the photopigment melanopsin. When isolated from its neighbors, a photoreceptor confounds photon flux with wavelength and so by itself provides no information about color. The retina has evolved elaborate color opponent circuitry for extracting wavelength information by comparing the activities of different photoreceptor types broadly tuned to different parts of the visible spectrum. We review studies concerning the circuit mechanisms mediating opponent interactions in a range of species, from tetrachromatic fish with diverse color opponent cell types to common dichromatic mammals where cone opponency is restricted to a subset of specialized circuits. Distinct among mammals, primates have reinvented trichromatic color vision using novel strategies to incorporate evolution of an additional photopigment gene into the foveal structure and circuitry that supports high-resolution vision. Color vision is absent at scotopic light levels when only rods are active, but rods interact with cone signals to influence color perception at mesopic light levels. Recent evidence suggests melanopsin-mediated signals, which have been identified as a substrate for setting circadian rhythms, may also influence color perception. We consider circuits that may mediate these interactions. While cone opponency is a relatively simple neural computation, it has been implemented in vertebrates by diverse neural mechanisms that are not yet fully understood.
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- Wallace B Thoreson
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Truhlsen Eye Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center , Omaha, Nebraska ; and Department of Biological Structure, Washington National Primate Research Center, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Truhlsen Eye Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center , Omaha, Nebraska ; and Department of Biological Structure, Washington National Primate Research Center, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington
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Kling A, Field GD, Brainard DH, Chichilnisky EJ. Probing Computation in the Primate Visual System at Single-Cone Resolution. Annu Rev Neurosci 2019; 42:169-186. [PMID: 30857477 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-070918-050233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Daylight vision begins when light activates cone photoreceptors in the retina, creating spatial patterns of neural activity. These cone signals are then combined and processed in downstream neural circuits, ultimately producing visual perception. Recent technical advances have made it possible to deliver visual stimuli to the retina that probe this processing by the visual system at its elementary resolution of individual cones. Physiological recordings from nonhuman primate retinas reveal the spatial organization of cone signals in retinal ganglion cells, including how signals from cones of different types are combined to support both spatial and color vision. Psychophysical experiments with human subjects characterize the visual sensations evoked by stimulating a single cone, including the perception of color. Future combined physiological and psychophysical experiments focusing on probing the elementary visual inputs are likely to clarify how neural processing generates our perception of the visual world.
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- A Kling
- Departments of Neurosurgery and Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA;
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- Department of Neurobiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Departments of Neurosurgery and Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA;
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Hüttermann S, Smeeton NJ, Ford PR, Williams AM. Color Perception and Attentional Load in Dynamic, Time-Constrained Environments. Front Psychol 2019; 9:2614. [PMID: 30670996 PMCID: PMC6331534 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2018] [Accepted: 12/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The capacity to perceive color in the peripheral field has attracted research interest for more than a decade. There is evidence that sensitivity to red-green color variations is lower than for yellow-blue in peripheral vision. Whether, and to what extent, color vision affects the visual focus of attention, which is normally much smaller than the visual field, has not yet been examined. We used a sport-specific decision-making task to assess whether the color of the jersey worn by players appearing in the periphery influences decision making by affecting the attentional and perceptual capabilities. Pairs of players wearing chromatic (blue, yellow, red, and green) and achromatic (black, white) colored jerseys were briefly presented across a range of visual angles on a 6 m concave immersive screen. Participants were required to decide to whom to pass and recall relevant information. Findings indicate that color perception changes vary with increasing visual angle, but that the focus of attention is too small to be influenced by jersey color sensitivity. Decision-making performance decreases with increasing visual angle, but is not influenced by color. The implications for decision-making processes in sport and other professional domains are discussed.
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- Stefanie Hüttermann
- Cognitive and Team/Racket Sport Research, German Sport University Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Sport and Exercise Science and Medicine, University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Sport and Exercise Science and Medicine, University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Recreation, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
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The spatial structure of cone-opponent receptive fields in macaque retina. Vision Res 2018; 151:141-151. [DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2017.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2017] [Revised: 05/23/2017] [Accepted: 05/30/2017] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Nonselective Wiring Accounts for Red-Green Opponency in Midget Ganglion Cells of the Primate Retina. J Neurosci 2018; 38:1520-1540. [PMID: 29305531 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1688-17.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2017] [Revised: 12/17/2017] [Accepted: 12/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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In primate retina, "red-green" color coding is initiated when signals originating in long (L) and middle (M) wavelength-sensitive cone photoreceptors interact antagonistically. The center-surround receptive field of "midget" ganglion cells provides the neural substrate for L versus M cone-opponent interaction, but the underlying circuitry remains unsettled, centering around the longstanding question of whether specialized cone wiring is present. To address this question, we measured the strength, sign, and spatial tuning of L- and M-cone input to midget receptive fields in the peripheral retina of macaque primates of either sex. Consistent with previous work, cone opponency arose when one of the cone types showed a stronger connection to the receptive field center than to the surround. We implemented a difference-of-Gaussians spatial receptive field model, incorporating known biology of the midget circuit, to test whether physiological responses we observed in real cells could be captured entirely by anatomical nonselectivity. When this model sampled nonselectively from a realistic cone mosaic, it accurately reproduced key features of a cone-opponent receptive field structure, and predicted both the variability and strength of cone opponency across the retina. The model introduced here is consistent with abundant anatomical evidence for nonselective wiring, explains both local and global properties of the midget population, and supports a role in their multiplexing of spatial and color information. It provides a neural basis for human chromatic sensitivity across the visual field, as well as the maintenance of normal color vision despite significant variability in the relative number of L and M cones across individuals.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Red-green color vision is a hallmark of the human and nonhuman primate that starts in the retina with the presence of long (L)- and middle (M)-wavelength sensitive cone photoreceptor types. Understanding the underlying retinal mechanism for color opponency has focused on the broad question of whether this characteristic can emerge from nonselective wiring, or whether complex cone-type-specific wiring must be invoked. We provide experimental and modeling support for the hypothesis that nonselective connectivity is sufficient to produce the range of red-green color opponency observed in midget ganglion cells across the retina. Our nonselective model reproduces the diversity of physiological responses of midget cells while also accounting for systematic changes in color sensitivity across the visual field.
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Spatiochromatic Interactions between Individual Cone Photoreceptors in the Human Retina. J Neurosci 2017; 37:9498-9509. [PMID: 28871030 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0529-17.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2017] [Revised: 07/19/2017] [Accepted: 08/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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A remarkable feature of human vision is that the retina and brain have evolved circuitry to extract useful spatial and spectral information from signals originating in a photoreceptor mosaic with trichromatic constituents that vary widely in their relative numbers and local spatial configurations. A critical early transformation applied to cone signals is horizontal-cell-mediated lateral inhibition, which imparts a spatially antagonistic surround to individual cone receptive fields, a signature inherited by downstream neurons and implicated in color signaling. In the peripheral retina, the functional connectivity of cone inputs to the circuitry that mediates lateral inhibition is not cone-type specific, but whether these wiring schemes are maintained closer to the fovea remains unsettled, in part because central retinal anatomy is not easily amenable to direct physiological assessment. Here, we demonstrate how the precise topography of the long (L)-, middle (M)-, and short (S)-wavelength-sensitive cones in the human parafovea (1.5° eccentricity) shapes perceptual sensitivity. We used adaptive optics microstimulation to measure psychophysical detection thresholds from individual cones with spectral types that had been classified independently by absorptance imaging. Measured against chromatic adapting backgrounds, the sensitivities of L and M cones were, on average, receptor-type specific, but individual cone thresholds varied systematically with the number of preferentially activated cones in the immediate neighborhood. The spatial and spectral patterns of these interactions suggest that interneurons mediating lateral inhibition in the central retina, likely horizontal cells, establish functional connections with L and M cones indiscriminately, implying that the cone-selective circuitry supporting red-green color vision emerges after the first retinal synapse.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT We present evidence for spatially antagonistic interactions between individual, spectrally typed cones in the central retina of human observers using adaptive optics. Using chromatic adapting fields to modulate the relative steady-state activity of long (L)- and middle (M)-wavelength-sensitive cones, we found that single-cone detection thresholds varied predictably with the spectral demographics of the surrounding cones. The spatial scale and spectral pattern of these photoreceptor interactions were consistent with lateral inhibition mediated by retinal horizontal cells that receive nonselective input from L and M cones. These results demonstrate a clear link between the neural architecture of the visual system inputs-cone photoreceptors-and visual perception and have implications for the neural locus of the cone-specific circuitry supporting color vision.
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Seeing number using texture: How summary statistics account for reductions in perceived numerosity in the visual periphery. Atten Percept Psychophys 2016; 78:2313-2319. [PMID: 27613743 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-016-1204-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Peripheral visual perception is characterized by reduced information about appearance due to constraints on how image structure is represented. Visual crowding is a consequence of excessive integration in the visual periphery. Basic phenomenology of visual crowding and other tasks have been successfully accounted for by a summary-statistic model of pooling, suggesting that texture-like processing is useful for how information is reduced in peripheral vision. I attempt to extend the scope of this model by examining a property of peripheral vision: reduced perceived numerosity in the periphery. I demonstrate that a summary-statistic model of peripheral appearance accounts for reduced numerosity in peripherally viewed arrays of randomly placed dots, but does not account for observed effects of dot clustering within such arrays. The model thus offers a limited account of how numerosity is perceived in the visual periphery. I also demonstrate that the model predicts that numerosity estimation is sensitive to element shape, which represents a novel prediction regarding the phenomenology of peripheral numerosity perception. Finally, I discuss ways to extend the model to a broader range of behavior and the potential for using the model to make further predictions about how number is perceived in untested scenarios in peripheral vision.
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We have assessed the optimal cone contrast sensitivity across eccentricity in human vision of the two cone-opponent mechanisms [L/M or red-green, and S/(L + M) or blue-yellow] and the luminance mechanism. We have used a novel stimulus, termed a ‘sinring’, that is a radially modulated sine-wave arc, Gaussian enveloped in both angular and radial directions. This stimulus overcomes the problem inherent in Gabor stimuli of confounding stimulus spatial frequency, size, and eccentricity and so allows contrast sensitivity to be tracked accurately into the periphery. Our results show that L/M cone opponency declines steeply across the human periphery and becomes behaviourally absent by 25–30 deg (in the nasal field). This result suggests that any L/M cone-opponent neurons found in primate peripheral retina beyond this limit are unlikely to be significant for colour contrast detection measured behaviourally.
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- Kathy T Mullen
- McGill Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, McGill University, 687 Pine Avenue West, H4-14, Montréal, Québec H3A 1A1, Canada.
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D'Souza DV, Auer T, Frahm J, Strasburger H, Lee BB. Dependence of chromatic responses in V1 on visual field eccentricity and spatial frequency: an fMRI study. JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. A, OPTICS, IMAGE SCIENCE, AND VISION 2016; 33:A53-A64. [PMID: 26974942 DOI: 10.1364/josaa.33.000a53] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Psychophysical sensitivity to red-green chromatic modulation decreases with visual eccentricity, compared to sensitivity to luminance modulation, even after appropriate stimulus scaling. This is likely to occur at a central, rather than a retinal, site. Blood-oxygenation-level-dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) responses to stimuli designed to separately stimulate different afferent channels' [red-green, luminance, and short-wavelength (S)-cone] circular gratings were recorded as a function of visual eccentricity (±10 deg) and spatial frequency (SF) in human primary visual cortex (V1) and further visual areas (V2v, V3v). In V1, the SF tuning of BOLD fMRI responses became coarser with eccentricity. For red-green and luminance gratings, similar SF tuning curves were found at all eccentricities. The pattern for S-cone modulation differed, with SF tuning changing more slowly with eccentricity than for the other two modalities. This may be due to the different retinal distribution with eccentricity of this receptor type. A similar pattern held in V2v and V3v. This would suggest that transformation or spatial filtering of the chromatic (red-green) signal occurs beyond these areas.
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Zhang XS, Gao SB, Li CY, Li YJ. A Retina Inspired Model for Enhancing Visibility of Hazy Images. Front Comput Neurosci 2015; 9:151. [PMID: 26733857 PMCID: PMC4686735 DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2015.00151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2015] [Accepted: 12/03/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The mammalian retina seems far smarter than scientists have believed so far. Inspired by the visual processing mechanisms in the retina, from the layer of photoreceptors to the layer of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), we propose a computational model for haze removal from a single input image, which is an important issue in the field of image enhancement. In particular, the bipolar cells serve to roughly remove the low-frequency of haze, and the amacrine cells modulate the output of cone bipolar cells to compensate the loss of details by increasing the image contrast. Then the RGCs with disinhibitory receptive field surround refine the local haze removal as well as the image detail enhancement. Results on a variety of real-world and synthetic hazy images show that the proposed model yields results comparative to or even better than the state-of-the-art methods, having the advantage of simultaneous dehazing and enhancing of single hazy image with simple and straightforward implementation.
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- Xian-Shi Zhang
- Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu, China
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- Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu, China
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- Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChengdu, China; Center for Life Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of SciencesShanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu, China
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Silveira LCL, Saito CA, da Silva Filho M, Kremers J, Bowmaker JK, Lee BB. Alouatta trichromatic color vision: cone spectra and physiological responses studied with microspectrophotometry and single unit retinal electrophysiology. PLoS One 2014; 9:e113321. [PMID: 25405863 PMCID: PMC4236167 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2014] [Accepted: 10/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The howler monkeys (Alouatta sp.) are the only New World primates to exhibit routine trichromacy. Both males and females have three cone photopigments. However, in contrast to Old World monkeys, Alouatta has a locus control region upstream of each opsin gene on the X-chromosome and this might influence the retinal organization underlying its color vision. Post-mortem microspectrophotometry (MSP) was performed on the retinae of two male Alouatta to obtain rod and cone spectral sensitivities. The MSP data were consistent with only a single opsin being expressed in each cone and electrophysiological data were consistent with this primate expressing full trichromacy. To study the physiological organization of the retina underlying Alouatta trichromacy, we recorded from retinal ganglion cells of the same animals used for MSP measurements with a variety of achromatic and chromatic stimulus protocols. We found MC cells and PC cells in the Alouatta retina with similar properties to those previously found in the retina of other trichromatic primates. MC cells showed strong phasic responses to luminance changes and little response to chromatic pulses. PC cells showed strong tonic response to chromatic changes and small tonic response to luminance changes. Responses to other stimulus protocols (flicker photometry; changing the relative phase of red and green modulated lights; temporal modulation transfer functions) were also similar to those recorded in other trichromatic primates. MC cells also showed a pronounced frequency double response to chromatic modulation, and with luminance modulation response saturation accompanied by a phase advance between 10-20 Hz, characteristic of a contrast gain mechanism. This indicates a very similar retinal organization to Old-World monkeys. Cone-specific opsin expression in the presence of a locus control region for each opsin may call into question the hypothesis that this region exclusively controls opsin expression.
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- Luiz Carlos L. Silveira
- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil
- Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
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- Division of Visual Science, Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
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- State College of Optometry, State University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America
- Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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Yan T, Wang B, Geng Y, Yan Y, Mu N, Wu J, Guo Q, Tang X, Zeng Y, Peng Y. Contrast response functions with wide-view stimuli in the human visual cortex. Perception 2014; 43:677-93. [PMID: 25223111 DOI: 10.1068/p7640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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In this manuscript, using a novel wide-view visual presentation system that we developed for vision research and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we studied contrast response functions in regions of the brain that are central and peripheral to the entire set of visual areas (V1, V2, V3, V3A, MT+), regions that have not been all investigated in previous vision research. Under the stimulus conditions which were 0-20 deg, 20-40 deg, and 40-60 deg eccentricity black-and-white checkerboard patterns, we measured the blood oxygenation level-dependent fMRI contrast response at five contrast levels (6, 12, 24, 48, and 96%) in the visual areas. On the basis of these data, the central and pericentral visual areas had low-contrast gain, whereas the peripheral visual areas had high-contrast gain. In addition, our results showed that the signals fundamentally shift during visual processing through posterior visual cortical areas (V1, V2, and V3) to superior visual cortical areas (V3A and MT+).
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Yu HH, Chaplin TA, Rosa MGP. Representation of central and peripheral vision in the primate cerebral cortex: Insights from studies of the marmoset brain. Neurosci Res 2014; 93:47-61. [PMID: 25242578 DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2014.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2014] [Revised: 08/27/2014] [Accepted: 08/28/2014] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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How the visual field is represented by neurons in the cerebral cortex is one of the most basic questions in visual neuroscience. However, research to date has focused heavily on the small part of the visual field within, and immediately surrounding the fovea. Studies on the cortical representation of the full visual field in the primate brain are still scarce. We have been investigating this issue with electrophysiological and anatomical methods, taking advantage of the small and lissencephalic marmoset brain, which allows easy access to the representation of the full visual field in many cortical areas. This review summarizes our main findings to date, and relates the results to a broader question: is the peripheral visual field processed in a similar manner to the central visual field, but with lower spatial acuity? Given the organization of the visual cortex, the issue can be addressed by asking: (1) Is visual information processed in the same way within a single cortical area? and (2) Are different cortical areas specialized for different parts of the visual field? The electrophysiological data from the primary visual cortex indicate that many aspects of spatiotemporal computation are remarkably similar across the visual field, although subtle variations are detectable. Our anatomical and electrophysiological studies of the extrastriate cortex, on the other hand, suggest that visual processing in the far peripheral visual field is likely to involve a distinct network of specialized cortical areas, located in the depths of the calcarine sulcus and interhemispheric fissure.
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- H-H Yu
- Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function, Monash University Node, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia.
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- Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia; Monash Vision Group, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia
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- Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function, Monash University Node, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia; Monash Vision Group, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia
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The fovea dominates primate vision, and its anatomy and perceptual abilities are well studied, but its physiology has been little explored because of limitations of current physiological methods. In this study, we adapted a novel in vivo imaging method, originally developed in mouse retina, to explore foveal physiology in the macaque, which permits the repeated imaging of the functional response of many retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) simultaneously. A genetically encoded calcium indicator, G-CaMP5, was inserted into foveal RGCs, followed by calcium imaging of the displacement of foveal RGCs from their receptive fields, and their intensity-response functions. The spatial offset of foveal RGCs from their cone inputs makes this method especially appropriate for fovea by permitting imaging of RGC responses without excessive light adaptation of cones. This new method will permit the tracking of visual development, progression of retinal disease, or therapeutic interventions, such as insertion of visual prostheses.
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Lee BB. Color coding in the primate visual pathway: a historical view. JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. A, OPTICS, IMAGE SCIENCE, AND VISION 2014; 31:A103-A112. [PMID: 24695157 DOI: 10.1364/josaa.31.00a103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The physiology and anatomy of the primate visual pathway are reviewed from a historical perspective, especially in relation to color vision. From the work of the last decades, certain issues have been selected which remain unresolved and still pose a challenge for neurobiologists and psychophysicists. It is suggested that the structure of the primate visual pathway has been colored by the evolution of trichromacy and that many features of the parvocellular pathway represent adaptations to this end.
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Otsuna H, Shinomiya K, Ito K. Parallel neural pathways in higher visual centers of the Drosophila brain that mediate wavelength-specific behavior. Front Neural Circuits 2014; 8:8. [PMID: 24574974 PMCID: PMC3918591 DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2014.00008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2013] [Accepted: 01/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Compared with connections between the retinae and primary visual centers, relatively less is known in both mammals and insects about the functional segregation of neural pathways connecting primary and higher centers of the visual processing cascade. Here, using the Drosophila visual system as a model, we demonstrate two levels of parallel computation in the pathways that connect primary visual centers of the optic lobe to computational circuits embedded within deeper centers in the central brain. We show that a seemingly simple achromatic behavior, namely phototaxis, is under the control of several independent pathways, each of which is responsible for navigation towards unique wavelengths. Silencing just one pathway is enough to disturb phototaxis towards one characteristic monochromatic source, whereas phototactic behavior towards white light is not affected. The response spectrum of each demonstrable pathway is different from that of individual photoreceptors, suggesting subtractive computations. A choice assay between two colors showed that these pathways are responsible for navigation towards, but not for the detection itself of, the monochromatic light. The present study provides novel insights about how visual information is separated and processed in parallel to achieve robust control of an innate behavior.
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- Hideo Otsuna
- Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (IMCB), University of TokyoTokyo, Japan
- Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of UtahSalt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (IMCB), University of TokyoTokyo, Japan
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Life Sciences Centre, Dalhousie UniversityHalifax, NS, Canada
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- Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (IMCB), University of TokyoTokyo, Japan
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Li X, Chen Y, Lashgari R, Bereshpolova Y, Swadlow HA, Lee BB, Alonso JM. Mixing of Chromatic and Luminance Retinal Signals in Primate Area V1. Cereb Cortex 2014; 25:1920-37. [PMID: 24464943 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Vision emerges from activation of chromatic and achromatic retinal channels whose interaction in visual cortex is still poorly understood. To investigate this interaction, we recorded neuronal activity from retinal ganglion cells and V1 cortical cells in macaques and measured their visual responses to grating stimuli that had either luminance contrast (luminance grating), chromatic contrast (chromatic grating), or a combination of the two (compound grating). As with parvocellular or koniocellular retinal ganglion cells, some V1 cells responded mostly to the chromatic contrast of the compound grating. As with magnocellular retinal ganglion cells, other V1 cells responded mostly to the luminance contrast and generated a frequency-doubled response to equiluminant chromatic gratings. Unlike magnocellular and parvocellular retinal ganglion cells, V1 cells formed a unimodal distribution for luminance/color preference with a 2- to 4-fold bias toward luminance. V1 cells associated with positive local field potentials in deep layers showed the strongest combined responses to color and luminance and, as a population, V1 cells encoded a diverse combination of luminance/color edges that matched edge distributions of natural scenes. Taken together, these results suggest that the primary visual cortex combines magnocellular and parvocellular retinal inputs to increase cortical receptive field diversity and to optimize visual processing of our natural environment.
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- Xiaobing Li
- Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY Optometry, New York, NY 10036, USA
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY Optometry, New York, NY 10036, USA Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Narmak, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY Optometry, New York, NY 10036, USA Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY Optometry, New York, NY 10036, USA Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY Optometry, New York, NY 10036, USA Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
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Wang B, Yan T, Wu J, Chen K, Imajyo S, Ohno S, Kanazawa S. Regional neural response differences in the determination of faces or houses positioned in a wide visual field. PLoS One 2013; 8:e72728. [PMID: 23991147 PMCID: PMC3749153 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2013] [Accepted: 07/12/2013] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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In human visual cortex, the primary visual cortex (V1) is considered to be essential for visual information processing; the fusiform face area (FFA) and parahippocampal place area (PPA) are considered as face-selective region and places-selective region, respectively. Recently, a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study showed that the neural activity ratios between V1 and FFA were constant as eccentricities increasing in central visual field. However, in wide visual field, the neural activity relationships between V1 and FFA or V1 and PPA are still unclear. In this work, using fMRI and wide-view present system, we tried to address this issue by measuring neural activities in V1, FFA and PPA for the images of faces and houses aligning in 4 eccentricities and 4 meridians. Then, we further calculated ratio relative to V1 (RRV1) as comparing the neural responses amplitudes in FFA or PPA with those in V1. We found V1, FFA, and PPA showed significant different neural activities to faces and houses in 3 dimensions of eccentricity, meridian, and region. Most importantly, the RRV1s in FFA and PPA also exhibited significant differences in 3 dimensions. In the dimension of eccentricity, both FFA and PPA showed smaller RRV1s at central position than those at peripheral positions. In meridian dimension, both FFA and PPA showed larger RRV1s at upper vertical positions than those at lower vertical positions. In the dimension of region, FFA had larger RRV1s than PPA. We proposed that these differential RRV1s indicated FFA and PPA might have different processing strategies for encoding the wide field visual information from V1. These different processing strategies might depend on the retinal position at which faces or houses are typically observed in daily life. We posited a role of experience in shaping the information processing strategies in the ventral visual cortex.
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- Bin Wang
- School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
- Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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- School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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- School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
- Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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- Computational Image Analysis Program, Banner Alzheimer Institute and Banner Good Samaritan PET Center, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
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- Department of Radiology, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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Yin L, Geng Y, Osakada F, Sharma R, Cetin AH, Callaway EM, Williams DR, Merigan WH. Imaging light responses of retinal ganglion cells in the living mouse eye. J Neurophysiol 2013; 109:2415-21. [PMID: 23407356 DOI: 10.1152/jn.01043.2012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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This study reports development of a novel method for high-resolution in vivo imaging of the function of individual mouse retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) that overcomes many limitations of available methods for recording RGC physiology. The technique combines insertion of a genetically encoded calcium indicator into RGCs with imaging of calcium responses over many days with FACILE (functional adaptive optics cellular imaging in the living eye). FACILE extends the most common method for RGC physiology, in vitro physiology, by allowing repeated imaging of the function of each cell over many sessions and by avoiding damage to the retina during removal from the eye. This makes it possible to track changes in the response of individual cells during morphological development or degeneration. FACILE also overcomes limitations of existing in vivo imaging methods, providing fine spatial and temporal detail, structure-function comparison, and simultaneous analysis of multiple cells.
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- Lu Yin
- Flaum Eye Institute, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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Chang L, Breuninger T, Euler T. Chromatic Coding from Cone-type Unselective Circuits in the Mouse Retina. Neuron 2013; 77:559-71. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.12.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/04/2012] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Danilova M, Chan C, Mollon J. Can spatial resolution reveal individual differences in the L:M cone ratio? Vision Res 2013; 78:26-38. [DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2012.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2012] [Revised: 12/05/2012] [Accepted: 12/11/2012] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Volbrecht VJ, Nerger JL. Color appearance at ±10° along the vertical and horizontal meridians. JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. A, OPTICS, IMAGE SCIENCE, AND VISION 2012; 29:A44-A51. [PMID: 22330404 DOI: 10.1364/josaa.29.000a44] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Hue-scaling data were collected from three observers using the "4+1" color-naming procedure for circular (0.25°-5°), monochromatic (440-660 nm) stimuli. Stimuli were presented at ±10° along the vertical and horizontal meridians under conditions chosen to include both rod and cone signals (no bleach) and to minimize rod contribution (bleach). All color-naming data were analyzed and compared using uniform appearance diagrams. Smaller stimuli appear more desaturated under both bleach conditions. This effect is particularly detrimental for the perception of green and is influenced by retinal location and exacerbated with rod input. As stimulus size increases and perceptive field sizes are filled for all four elemental hues, the differences in hue perception among the four peripheral locations and the two bleach conditions are attenuated. Results are consistent with predictions based on known differences in the underlying retinal mosaic among the four locations.
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- Vicki J Volbrecht
- Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1876, USA.
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Dalhaus RN, Gunther KL. A tritan Waldo would be easier to detect in the periphery than a red/green one: evidence from visual search. JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. A, OPTICS, IMAGE SCIENCE, AND VISION 2012; 29:A298-A305. [PMID: 22330393 DOI: 10.1364/josaa.29.00a298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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In a color naming task from 0° to 55° eccentricity, we found that red/green performance (n=10 subjects) declines around 40° eccentricity, 5° earlier than does tritan performance (main effect of color, p=0.009; eccentricity, p<0.001; interaction, p=0.005). In a feature visual search task (e.g., red target dot among green distractor dots; twelve 2.5° diameter dots; 0, 20, and 45° eccentricity; 12 subjects), performance was significantly more impaired for red/green than for tritan stimuli, especially in the periphery (main effect of color, p=0.007; eccentricity, p<0.001; interaction, p=0.003). This effect occurred even following a rod bleach. Our results are consistent with influences from both the retina (especially random rather than selective peripheral cone input to midget ganglion cells for red/green perception, and selective cone input to small bistratified cells for tritan perception) and the cortex (differential cortical magnification across the two chromatic axes).
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- Rob N Dalhaus
- Department of Psychology, Wabash College, 301 West Wabash Avenue, Crawfordsville, Indiana 47933, USA
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Lee BB, Shapley RM, Hawken MJ, Sun H. Spatial distributions of cone inputs to cells of the parvocellular pathway investigated with cone-isolating gratings. JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. A, OPTICS, IMAGE SCIENCE, AND VISION 2012; 29:A223-32. [PMID: 22330383 PMCID: PMC4237200 DOI: 10.1364/josaa.29.00a223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Receptive fields of midget ganglion cells and parvocellular lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) neurons show color-opponent responses because they receive antagonistic input from the middle- and long-wavelength sensitive cones. It has been controversial as to whether this opponency can derive from random connectivity; if receptive field centers of cells near the fovea are cone-specific due to midget morphology, this would confer some degree of color opponency even with random cone input to the surround. A simple test of this mixed surround hypothesis is to compare spatial frequency tuning curves for luminance gratings and gratings isolating cone input to the receptive field center. If tuning curves for luminance gratings were bandpass, then with the mixed surround hypothesis tuning curves for gratings isolating the receptive field center cone class should also be bandpass, but to a lesser extent than for luminance. Tuning curves for luminance, chromatic, and cone-isolating gratings were measured in macaque retinal ganglion cells and LGN cells. We defined and measured a bandpass index to compare luminance and center cone-isolating tuning curves. Midget retinal ganglion cells and parvocellular LGN cells had bandpass indices between 0.1 and 1 with luminance gratings, but the index was usually near 1 (meaning low-pass tuning) when the receptive field center cone class alone was modulated. This is strong evidence for a considerable degree of cone-specific input to the surround. A fraction of midget and parvocellular cells showed evidence of incomplete specificity. Fitting the data with receptive field models revealed considerable intercell variability, with indications in some cells of a more complex receptive structure than a simple difference of Gaussians model.
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- Barry B Lee
- Graduate Center for Visual Science, State University of New York, SUNY College of Optometry, New York, New York 10036, USA.
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Yan T, Jin F, He J, Wu J. Development of a wide-view visual presentation system for visual retinotopic mapping during functional MRI. J Magn Reson Imaging 2011; 33:441-7. [PMID: 21274987 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To develop and validate the functionality of a novel wide-view visual presentation system with a horizontal and vertical eccentricity angle of 60° for retinotopic mapping by functional MRI (fMRI). MATERIALS AND METHODS The wide-view presentation system consisted of a 52-mm diameter optical fiber, an entrance apparatus and a presentation apparatus. The terminal edge of the optical fiber at the entrance is flat, while the terminal edge on the presentation apparatus is a sphere of 60 mm in diameter. The subjects wore contact lenses with +20, +22, or +25 magnification to focus on the stimulus, and the visual field eccentricity angle could reach 60°. The signal to noise ratio valuation experiment was performed to evaluate the clarity and quality of the MRI picture image. Checkerboard and random dot stimuli were used to prove that this system could be applied to retinotopic mapping by fMRI. RESULTS The results of the experiment demonstrated that the system is safe in the MRI environment with minimal distortion and can be used for visual retinotopic mapping studies. Wide-field mapping areas (V6, MST) were found in the human visual cortex. Compared with previous studies, the V1 and MT+ surface area approaches but does not fully cover the anatomical area. Nonetheless, the area achieved using the new system is larger than those achievable in previous fMRI studies. CONCLUSION We developed a versatile, low-cost system for presenting wide-view visual stimuli in the MRI environment. The fMRI retinotopic mapping results proved the viability of this system.
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- Tianyi Yan
- Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, The Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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Horizontal cell feedback without cone type-selective inhibition mediates "red-green" color opponency in midget ganglion cells of the primate retina. J Neurosci 2011; 31:1762-72. [PMID: 21289186 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.4385-10.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The distinctive red-green dimension of human and nonhuman primate color perception arose relatively recently in the primate lineage with the appearance of separate long (L) and middle (M) wavelength-sensitive cone photoreceptor types. "Midget" ganglion cells of the retina use center-surround receptive field structure to combine L and M cone signals antagonistically and thereby establish a "red-green, color-opponent" visual pathway. However, the synaptic origin of red-green opponency is unknown, and conflicting evidence for either random or L versus M cone-selective inhibitory circuits has divergent implications for the developmental and evolutionary origins of trichromatic color vision. Here we directly measure the synaptic conductances evoked by selective L or M cone stimulation in the midget ganglion cell dendritic tree and show that L versus M cone opponency arises presynaptic to the midget cell and is transmitted entirely by modulation of an excitatory conductance. L and M cone synaptic inhibition is feedforward and thus occurs in phase with excitation for both cone types. Block of GABAergic and glycinergic receptors does not attenuate or modify L versus M cone antagonism, discounting both presynaptic and postsynaptic inhibition as sources of cone opponency. In sharp contrast, enrichment of retinal pH-buffering capacity, to attenuate negative feedback from horizontal cells that sum L and M cone inputs linearly and without selectivity, completely abolished both the midget cell surround and all chromatic opponency. Thus, red-green opponency appears to arise via outer retinal horizontal cell feedback that is not cone type selective without recourse to any inner retinal L versus M cone inhibitory pathways.
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Lee BB. Visual pathways and psychophysical channels in the primate. J Physiol 2011; 589:41-7. [PMID: 20724364 PMCID: PMC3039258 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2010.192658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2010] [Accepted: 08/16/2010] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The main cell systems of the retina that provide input to the striate cortex are now well described, although certain aspects of their anatomy and physiology remain contentious. Under simple stimulus conditions and in a threshold context psychophysical performance can often be assigned to one or other of these systems, and an identification of psychophysical channels with afferent pathways is justifiable. However, results from psychophysical studies using more complex stimulus conditions are more difficult to relate to 'front end' channels, and it is more difficult to separate the physiological contributions of afferent pathways from those of cortical mechanisms, in particular the separation of dorsal and ventral streams.
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- Barry B Lee
- SUNY Optometry, 33 W. 42nd St, New York, NY 10036, USA.
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Color has become a premier model system for understanding how information is processed by neural circuits, and for investigating the relationships among genes, neural circuits, and perception. Both the physical stimulus for color and the perceptual output experienced as color are quite well characterized, but the neural mechanisms that underlie the transformation from stimulus to perception are incompletely understood. The past several years have seen important scientific and technical advances that are changing our understanding of these mechanisms. Here, and in the accompanying minisymposium, we review the latest findings and hypotheses regarding color computations in the retina, primary visual cortex, and higher-order visual areas, focusing on non-human primates, a model of human color vision.
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Field GD, Gauthier JL, Sher A, Greschner M, Machado TA, Jepson LH, Shlens J, Gunning DE, Mathieson K, Dabrowski W, Paninski L, Litke AM, Chichilnisky EJ. Functional connectivity in the retina at the resolution of photoreceptors. Nature 2010; 467:673-7. [PMID: 20930838 PMCID: PMC2953734 DOI: 10.1038/nature09424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 205] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2010] [Accepted: 08/11/2010] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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To understand a neural circuit requires knowing its connectivity. This paper reports measurements of functional connectivity between the input and ouput layers of the retina at single cell resolution and its implications for color vision. Multi-electrode technology was employed to record simultaneously from complete populations of the retinal ganglion cell types (midget, parasol, small bistratified) that transmit high-resolution visual signals to the brain. Fine-grained visual stimulation was used to identify the location, type and strength of the functional input of each cone photoreceptor to each ganglion cell. The populations of ON and OFF midget and parasol cells each sampled the complete population of long and middle wavelength sensitive cones. However, only OFF midget cells frequently received strong input from short wavelength sensitive cones. ON and OFF midget cells exhibited a small non-random tendency to selectively sample from either long or middle wavelength sensitive cones, to a degree not explained by clumping in the cone mosaic. These measurements reveal computations in a neural circuit at the elementary resolution of individual neurons.
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- Greg D Field
- Systems Neurobiology Laboratories, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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The general principles of retinal organization are now well known. It may seem surprising that retinal organization in the primate, which has a complex visual behavioral repertoire, appears relatively simple. In this review, we primarily consider retinal structure and function in primate species. Photoreceptor distribution and connectivity are considered as are connectivity in the outer and inner retina. One key issue is the specificity of retinal connections; we suggest that the retina shows connectional specificity but this is seldom complete, and we consider here the functional consequences of imprecise wiring. Finally, we consider how retinal systems can be linked to psychophysical descriptions of different channels, chromatic and luminance, which are proposed to exist in the primate visual system.
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- Barry B Lee
- SUNY College of Optometry, New York 10036, USA.
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Challa NK, McKeefry D, Parry NRA, Kremers J, Murray IJ, Panorgias A. L- and M-cone input to 12Hz and 30Hz flicker ERGs across the human retina. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt 2010; 30:503-10. [PMID: 20883333 DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-1313.2010.00758.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We recorded L- and M-cone isolating ERGs from human subjects using a silent substitution technique at temporal rates of 12 and 30 Hz. These frequencies isolate the activity of cone-opponent and non-opponent post-receptoral mechanisms, respectively. ERGs were obtained using a sequence of stimuli with different spatial configurations comprising; (1) circular stimuli of different sizes which increased in 10° steps up to 70°diameter, or (2) annular stimuli with a 70° outer diameter but with different sized central ablations from 10° up to 60°. L- and M-cone isolating ERGs were obtained from five colour normal subjects using a DTL fibre electrode. Fourier analysis of the ERGs was performed and we measured the amplitude of the first harmonic of the response. For 12 Hz ERGs the L:M cone response amplitude ratio (L:M(ERG)) was close to unity and remained stable irrespective of the spatial configuration of the stimulus. The maintenance of this balanced ratio points to the existence of cone selective input across the human retina for the L-M cone opponent mechanism. For 30 Hz the L:M(ERG) ratio was greater than unity but varied depending upon which region of the retina was being stimulated. This variation we consider to be a consequence of the global response properties of M-cone ERGs rather than representing a real variation in L:M cone ratios across the retina.
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- N K Challa
- Bradford School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, University of Bradford, UK
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Alleysson D. Spatially coherent colour image reconstruction from a trichromatic mosaic with random arrangement of chromatic samples. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt 2010; 30:492-502. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-1313.2010.00771.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Alexander DM, Van Leeuwen C. Mapping of contextual modulation in the population response of primary visual cortex. Cogn Neurodyn 2010; 4:1-24. [PMID: 19898958 PMCID: PMC2837531 DOI: 10.1007/s11571-009-9098-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2009] [Revised: 10/04/2009] [Accepted: 10/11/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
Abstract
We review the evidence of long-range contextual modulation in V1. Populations of neurons in V1 are activated by a wide variety of stimuli outside of their classical receptive fields (RF), well beyond their surround region. These effects generally involve extra-RF features with an orientation component. The population mapping of orientation preferences to the upper layers of V1 is well understood, as far as the classical RF properties are concerned, and involves organization into pinwheel-like structures. We introduce a novel hypothesis regarding the organization of V1's contextual response. We show that RF and extra-RF orientation preferences are mapped in related ways. Orientation pinwheels are the foci of both types of features. The mapping of contextual features onto the orientation pinwheel has a form that recapitulates the organization of the visual field: an iso-orientation patch within the pinwheel also responds to extra-RF stimuli of the same orientation. We hypothesize that the same form of mapping applies to other stimulus properties that are mapped out in V1, such as colour and contrast selectivity. A specific consequence is that fovea-like properties will be mapped in a systematic way to orientation pinwheels. We review the evidence that cytochrome oxidase blobs comprise the foci of this contextual remapping for colour and low contrasts. Neurodynamics and motion in the visual field are argued to play an important role in the shaping and maintenance of this type of mapping in V1.
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Affiliation(s)
- David M. Alexander
- Laboratory for Perceptual Dynamics, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198 Japan
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- Laboratory for Perceptual Dynamics, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198 Japan
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