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STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF VISUAL AREA MT

2005; Annual Reviews; Volume: 28; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1146/annurev.neuro.26.041002.131052

1545-4126

Richard T. Born, David C. Bradley,

Retinal Development and Disorders

The small visual area known as MT or V5 has played a major role in our understanding of the primate cerebral cortex. This area has been historically important in the concept of cortical processing streams and the idea that different visual areas constitute highly specialized representations of visual information. MT has also proven to be a fertile culture dish--full of direction- and disparity-selective neurons--exploited by many labs to study the neural circuits underlying computations of motion and depth and to examine the relationship between neural activity and perception. Here we attempt a synthetic overview of the rich literature on MT with the goal of answering the question, What does MT do?