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A Direct Demonstration of Functional Differences between Subdivisions of Human V5/MT+
Strong, Samantha L. Silson, E.H. Gouws, A.D. McKeefry, Declan J.
Strong, Samantha L.
Silson, E.H.
Gouws, A.D.
McKeefry, Declan J.
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2017-01
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(c) 2016 The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Two subdivisions of human V5/MT+; one located posteriorly (MT/TO-1), the other more anteriorly (MST/TO-2), were identified in human participants using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on the basis of their representations of the ipsi- versus contra-lateral visual field. These subdivisions were then targeted for disruption by the application of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). rTMS was delivered to cortical areas whilst participants performed direction discrimination tasks involving three different types of moving stimuli defined by the translational, radial or rotational motion of dot patterns. For translational motion, performance was significantly reduced relative to baseline when rTMS was applied to both MT/TO-1 and MST/TO-2. For radial motion there was a differential effect between MT/TO-1 and MST/TO-2, with only disruption of the latter area affecting performance. rTMS failed to reveal a complete dissociation between MT/TO-1 and MST/TO-2 in terms of their contribution to the perception of rotational motion. On the basis of these results MT/TO-1 and MST/TO-2 appear to be functionally distinct subdivisions of hMT/V5+. Whilst both areas appear to be implicated in the processing of translational motion, only the anterior region (MST/TO-2) makes a causal contribution to the perception of radial motion.
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Strong SL, Silson EH Gouws AD et al (2016) A Direct Demonstration of Functional Differences between Subdivisions of Human V5/MT+. Cerebral Cortex. 27(1): 1-10.
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