Encoding and attentive modulation of dynamic motion stimuli [Elektronische Ressource] / vorgelegt von Heiko Stemmann

Encoding and Attentive Modulation of Dynamic Motion Stimuli Dissertation zur Erlangung des Grades eines Doktors der Naturwissenschaften vorgelegt von Heiko Stemmann Institut für Hirnforschung Fachbereich 2 Universität Bremen Bremen, November 2008 ii1. Gutachter: Prof. Dr. Manfred Fahle 2. Gutachter: Prof. Dr. Michael KochiiiTable of Contents 1 Table of Contents 2 Introduction....................................................................................................................... 12.1 The Receptive Field.............................................................................................................12.2 Linear Receptive Field Models...........................................................................................22.3 Direction selectivity in Macaque visual area MT..............................................................32.4 Investigating the Encoding of Stimulus Features by Reconstruction..............................72.5 Attentive Modulation of Neural Response Behaviour......................................................82.6 A network perspective on effects of attention on cortical motion processing...............133 Overview of experiments ................................................................................................. 154 Encoding of dynamic visual stimuli by primate area MT neurons ............................... 164.1 Abstract .............................................................