title: Spectral Signatures of Feedforward and Recurrent Circuitry in Monkey Area MT.
abstract: Recordings of local field potential (LFP) in the visual cortex can show rhythmic activity at gamma frequencies (30-100 Hz). While the gamma rhythms in the primary visual cortex have been well studied, the structural and functional characteristics of gamma rhythms in extrastriate visual cortex are less clear. Here, we studied the spatial distribution and functional specificity of gamma rhythms in extrastriate middle temporal (MT) area of visual cortex in marmoset monkeys. We found that moving gratings induced narrowband gamma rhythms across cortical layers that were coherent across much of area MT. Moving dot fields instead induced a broadband increase in LFP in middle and upper layers, with weaker narrowband gamma rhythms in deeper layers. The stimulus dependence of LFP response in middle and upper layers of area MT appears to reflect the presence (gratings) or absence (dot fields and other textures) of strongly oriented contours. Our results suggest that gamma rhythms in these layers are propagated from earlier visual cortex, while those in the deeper layers may emerge in area MT.
authors.affiliation: Discipline of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences and Bosch Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.|Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
authors.forename: Selina S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Solomon
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Campbelltown, NSW 2560, Australia.
authors.forename: John W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Morley
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London WC1P 0AH, UK.
authors.forename: Samuel G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Solomon
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002144:Callithrix; D005260:Female; D065818:Gamma Rhythm / Q000502:physiology; D017774:Long-Term Potentiation / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D013057:Spectrum Analysis; D013997:Time Factors; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D014794:Visual Fields / Q000502:physiology; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: LFP; area MT; gamma; motion processing; visual pathways