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Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne
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Tuesday, May 3, 2022
4:00 PM Europe/Berlin
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The human middle temporal complex (hMT+) has a crucial biological relevance for the processing and detection of direction and speed of motion in visual stimuli. In both humans and monkeys, it has been extensively investigated in terms of its retinotopic properties and selectivity for direction of moving stimuli; however, only in recent years there has been an increasing interest in how neurons in MT encode the speed of motion. In this talk, I will explore the proposed mechanism of speed encoding questioning whether hMT+ neuronal populations encode the stimulus speed directly, or whether they separate motion into its spatial and temporal components. I will characterize how neuronal populations in hMT+ encode the speed of moving visual stimuli using electrocorticography ECoG and 7T fMRI. I will illustrate that the neuronal populations measured in hMT+ are not directly tuned to stimulus speed, but instead encode speed through separate and independent spatial and temporal frequency tuning. Finally, I will show that this mechanism plays a role in evaluating multisensory responses for visual, tactile and auditory motion stimuli in hMT+.
Anna Gaglianese
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne
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