{"id":235653,"date":"2026-04-21T18:13:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/de-novo-fast-motion-computation-in-the-primate-visual-cortex"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:13:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:13:01","slug":"de-novo-fast-motion-computation-in-the-primate-visual-cortex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/de-novo-fast-motion-computation-in-the-primate-visual-cortex","title":{"rendered":"De novo fast motion computation in the primate visual cortex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/de-novo-fast-motion-computation-in-the-primate-visual-cortex2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He et al. suggest that MT and MST neurons can generate velocity selectivity anew by integrating sequential visuotopic activations from the V1 rather than by simple inheritance, as the V1 is no longer direction selective at high speeds. This <i>de novo<\/i> velocity computation provides a parsimonious explanation for fast motion processing in the primate brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He et al. suggest that MT and MST neurons can generate velocity selectivity anew by integrating sequential visuotopic activations from the V1 rather than by simple inheritance, as the V1 is no longer direction selective at high speeds. This de novo velocity computation provides a parsimonious explanation for fast motion processing in the primate brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}