In cats, responses of area 18 neurons to different moving patterns were measured. The influence of three movement parameters—direction, angular velocity, and amplitude of movement— were tested. The results indicate that in area 18 no ideal movement detector exists, but that simple and complex cells each perform complementary operations of primary visual areas, i.e. analysis and detection of movement.
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