Occipital Lobe · Structure
Area MT (V5)
The motion detector.
Area MT specializes in movement: direction, speed, and the flow of the whole scene as you walk through it. It's why you can catch a ball you never consciously tracked.
What it does
- Detecting direction and speed of motion
- Guiding smooth eye tracking
- Sensing self-motion from visual flow
In the real world
Self-driving vision
Motion-energy models first written to describe MT neurons became the basis for optical-flow algorithms in autonomous vehicles.