Primate Motion Perception

This chapter reviews how different areas of the primate brain act together to produce perception of visual motion. After a brief overview of motion pathways, the first section gives an overview of the elementary motion detection mechanisms in the primate visual system. The second section discusses how these elementary motion detection mechanisms are combined to detect the motion of whole objects. The third section describes how elementary motion detectors are combined to analyze large-scale optic flow patterns that arise from self-motion. The final section reviews how and where in the brain motion signals are used to extract information on the shape of objects.