Paper Info
Title
Spatial Neuronal Integration Supports a Global Representation of Visual Numerosity in Primate Association Cortices.
Abstract
<para xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Our sense of number rests on the activity of neurons that are tuned to the number of items and show great invariance across display formats and modalities. Whether numerosity coding becomes abstracted from local spatial representations characteristic of visual input is not known. We mapped the visual receptive fields (RFs) of numerosity-selective neurons in the pFC and ventral intraparietal area in rhesus monkeys. We found numerosity selectivity in pFC and ventral intraparietal neurons irrespective of whether they exhibited an RF and independent of the location of their RFs. RFs were not predictive of the preference of numerosity-selective neurons. Furthermore, the presence and location of RFs had no impact on tuning width and quality of the numerosity-selective neurons. These findings show that neurons in frontal and parietal cortices integrate abstract visuospatial stimuli to give rise to global and spatially released number representations as required for number perception.</para>
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1162/jocn_a_01548
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
32
6
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0898-929X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pooja Viswanathan100.34
Andreas Nieder273.12