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Processing of the S-cone signals in the early visual cortex of primates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2013

Youping Xiao
Youping Xiao*
Affiliation:
Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
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*Address correspondence to: Youping Xiao, Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY.
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Abstract

The short-wavelength-sensitive (S) cones play an important role in color vision of primates, and may also contribute to the coding of other visual features, such as luminance and motion. The color signals carried by the S cones and other cone types are largely separated in the subcortical visual pathway. Studies on nonhuman primates or humans have suggested that these signals are combined in the striate cortex (V1) following a substantial amplification of the S-cone signals in the same area. In addition to reviewing these studies, this review describes the circuitry in V1 that may underlie the processing of the S-cone signals and the dynamics of this processing. It also relates the interaction between various cone signals in V1 to the results of some psychophysical and physiological studies on color perception, which leads to a discussion of a previous model, in which color perception is produced by a multistage processing of the cone signals. Finally, I discuss the processing of the S-cone signals in the extrastriate area V2.

Keywords

S-cone signalsStriate cortexColor visionKoniocellularV2
Type
Review Articles
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Visual Neuroscience , Volume 31 , Issue 2: Short Wavelength-Sensitive Cones and the Processing of Their Signals , March 2014 , pp. 189 - 195
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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