The role of the ventral intraparietal area (VIP/pVIP) in the perception of object-motion and self-motion
Retinal image motion is a composite signal that contains information about two behaviourally significant factors: self-motion and the movement of environmental objects. It is thought that the brain separates the two relevant signals, and although multiple brain regions have been identified that resp...
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| description | Retinal image motion is a composite signal that contains information about two behaviourally significant factors: self-motion and the movement of environmental objects. It is thought that the brain separates the two relevant signals, and although multiple brain regions have been identified that respond selectively to the composite optic flow signal, which brain region(s) perform the parsing process remains unknown. Here, we present original evidence that the putative human ventral intraparietal area (pVIP), a region known to receive optic flow signals as well as independent self-motion signals from other sensory modalities, plays a critical role in the parsing process and acts to isolate object-motion. We localised pVIP using its multisensory response profile, and then tested its relative responses to simulated object-motion and self-motion stimuli; results indicated that responses were much stronger in pVIP to stimuli that specified object-motion. We report two further observations that will be significant for the future direction of research in this area; firstly, activation in pVIP was suppressed by distant stationary objects compared to the absence of objects or closer objects. Secondly, we describe several other brain regions that share with pVIP selectivity for visual object-motion over visual self-motion as well as a multisensory response. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1f6f1ff33b3a48789971ab66725e84f02022-12-21T23:02:18ZengElsevierNeuroImage1095-95722020-06-01213116679The role of the ventral intraparietal area (VIP/pVIP) in the perception of object-motion and self-motionDavid T. Field0Nicolò Biagi1Laura A. Inman2Corresponding author.; Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN), Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AL, UKCentre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN), Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AL, UKCentre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN), Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AL, UKRetinal image motion is a composite signal that contains information about two behaviourally significant factors: self-motion and the movement of environmental objects. It is thought that the brain separates the two relevant signals, and although multiple brain regions have been identified that respond selectively to the composite optic flow signal, which brain region(s) perform the parsing process remains unknown. Here, we present original evidence that the putative human ventral intraparietal area (pVIP), a region known to receive optic flow signals as well as independent self-motion signals from other sensory modalities, plays a critical role in the parsing process and acts to isolate object-motion. We localised pVIP using its multisensory response profile, and then tested its relative responses to simulated object-motion and self-motion stimuli; results indicated that responses were much stronger in pVIP to stimuli that specified object-motion. We report two further observations that will be significant for the future direction of research in this area; firstly, activation in pVIP was suppressed by distant stationary objects compared to the absence of objects or closer objects. Secondly, we describe several other brain regions that share with pVIP selectivity for visual object-motion over visual self-motion as well as a multisensory response.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381192030166XObject-motionSelf-motionOptic flowfMRIVisual perception |
| spellingShingle | David T. Field Nicolò Biagi Laura A. Inman The role of the ventral intraparietal area (VIP/pVIP) in the perception of object-motion and self-motion NeuroImage Object-motion Self-motion Optic flow fMRI Visual perception |
| title | The role of the ventral intraparietal area (VIP/pVIP) in the perception of object-motion and self-motion |
| title_full | The role of the ventral intraparietal area (VIP/pVIP) in the perception of object-motion and self-motion |
| title_fullStr | The role of the ventral intraparietal area (VIP/pVIP) in the perception of object-motion and self-motion |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role of the ventral intraparietal area (VIP/pVIP) in the perception of object-motion and self-motion |
| title_short | The role of the ventral intraparietal area (VIP/pVIP) in the perception of object-motion and self-motion |
| title_sort | role of the ventral intraparietal area vip pvip in the perception of object motion and self motion |
| topic | Object-motion Self-motion Optic flow fMRI Visual perception |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381192030166X |
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