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Characterizing Receptive Field Selectivity In Area V2, Corey M. Ziemba, Robbe Lt Goris, J Anthony Movshon, Eero P. Simoncelli

MODVIS Workshop

The computations performed by neurons in area V1 are reasonably well understood, but computation in subsequent areas such as V2 have been more difficult to characterize. When stimulated with visual stimuli traditionally used to investigate V1, such as sinusoidal gratings, V2 neurons exhibit similar selectivity (but with larger receptive fields, and weaker responses) relative to V1 neurons. However, we find that V2 responses to synthetic stimuli designed to produce naturalistic patterns of joint activity in a model V1 population are more vigorous than responses to control stimuli that lacked this naturalistic structure (Freeman, et. al. 2013). Armed with this signature …