Abstract
Little is known about the internal circuitry of the primate lateral intraparietal area (LIP). During two versions of a delayed-saccade task, we found radically different network dynamics beneath similar population average firing patterns. When neurons are not influenced by stimuli outside their receptive fields (RFs), dynamics of the high-dimensional LIP network during slowly varying activity lie predominantly in one multi-neuronal dimension, as described previously. However, when activity is suppressed by stimuli outside the RF, slow LIP dynamics markedly deviate from a single dimension. The conflicting results can be reconciled if two LIP local networks, each underlying an RF location and dominated by a single multi-neuronal activity pattern, are suppressively coupled to each other. These results demonstrate the low dimensionality of slow LIP local dynamics, and suggest that LIP local networks encoding the attentional and movement priority of competing visual locations actively suppress one another.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 221-234 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Neuron |
Volume | 93 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 4 2017 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Neuroscience
Keywords
- LIP
- attention
- model
- network dynamics
- surround suppression