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Functional role of association fibres for a visual association area: the posterior suprasylvian sulcus of the cat.

Abstract：

:This paper reports on experiments in which the effect of disconnection of association fibres from Area 17/18 to the posterior suprasylvian cortex (PSSC) was investigated. In the control experiments, all neurons had large receptive fields in the central 5-10 degrees of the visual field without detailed retinotopy. In the medial bank of PSSC, receptive fields were located in the contralateral visual field, while receptive fields of neurons in the lateral bank were located ipsilaterally. Neurons in PSSC could be excited by electrical stimulation of the ipsilateral Area 17/18 boundary, of the medial pulvinar (N. lat. post., pars. lat.) and the lateral geniculate body. About 2/3 of all neurons could be excited from all these regions, although with varying latencies. After acute and chronic subpial undercutting of the representation of the central 5-10 degrees of the ipsilateral area 17/18, visual response properties including direction sensitivity, receptive field size and ocularity of PSSC-neurons in the medio-posterior bank did not change significantly. After ablation of the whole contralateral visual cortex (including PSSC and a wide region of the contralateral Clare-Bishop area) the input from the ipsilateral eye was considerably diminished, but other response properties did not change significantly. These essentially negative findings are discussed in relation to different findings of other authors, and it is argued that the subpial undercutting of only the central visual field representation may have prevented damage to the ipsilateral suprasylvian cortex and its afferents, which is difficult to avoid if the whole area 17 is ablated by suction. It is proposed, that association fibres may only "unspecifically" excite neurons in related association areas rather than impose onto them specific response features. These latter are derived, also in association areas, essentially from their thalamic afferents and their intracortical interaction.

journal_name

Exp Brain Res

journal_title

Experimental brain research

authors

Guedes R,Watanabe S,Creutzfeldt OD

doi

10.1007/BF00235537

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1983-01-01 00:00:00

pages

13-27

issue

eissn

0014-4819

issn

1432-1106

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Functional role of association fibres for a visual association area: the posterior suprasylvian sulcus of the cat.