VEP and PERG acuity in anesthetized young adult rhesus monkeys.

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to examine the contributions made by cat posterior parietal cortex to the analyses of the relative position of objects in visual space. Two cats were trained on a landmark task in which they learned to report the position of a landmark object relative to a right or left food-reward...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Lomber SG,Payne BR

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The entire population of ganglion cells in the retina of the toad Bufo marinus was labeled by retrograde transport of a lysine-fixable biotinylated dextran amine of 3000 molecular weight. Synaptic connections between bipolar, amacrine, and ganglion cells in the inner plexiform layer were quantitatively analyzed, with ...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Zhu BS,Gibbins IL

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of what is currently known about the visual response of retinal bipolar cells is based on studies of rod-dominant responses to flashes in the dark in the isolated retina. This minireview summarizes quantitative findings on contrast processing in the intact light-adapted retina based on intracellular recording fro...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Burkhardt DA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of the present study was to relate the dark and light-adapted flash sensitivity of the scotopic threshold response (STR) and rod b-wave of the electroretinogram (ERG) to behaviorally measured rod increment threshold responses. Small amplitudes of the dark-adapted STR and b-wave, the latter after application o...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Naarendorp F,Sato Y,Cajdric A,Hubbard NP

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine whether agmatine, a channel permeable probe, can identify photoreceptor dysfunction in the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) retina at an earlier stage to that shown by apoptosis or anatomical markers, and also characterize the neurochemical development of the inner retina in the n...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Kalloniatis M,Tomisich G,Wellard JW,Foster LE

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four experiments were performed to assess the effects of ON channel blockade with the glutamate analog 2-amino-4-phosphonobutyrate (APB) on brightness and contrast perception in monkeys. In Experiment 1, we demonstrate that stimuli brighter than background (incremental stimuli) appear less bright following ON channel ...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Dolan RP,Schiller PH

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual perception is not instantaneous; the perceptual representation of our environment builds up over time. This can strongly affect our responses to visual stimuli. Here, we study the temporal dynamics of visual processing by analyzing the time course of priming effects induced by the well-known Ebbinghaus illusion...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Schmidt F,Weber A,Haberkamp A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GABA is a major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian retina and it acts at many different sites via a variety of postsynaptic receptors. These include GABAA receptors and bicuculline-resistant GABAC receptors. The release of acetylcholine (ACh) is inhibited by GABA and strongly potentiated by GABA antagonists....

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Massey SC,Linn DM,Kittila CA,Mirza W

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cell types in the retina are coupled via gap junctions and so there is a pressing need for a potent and reversible gap junction antagonist. We screened a series of potential gap junction antagonists by evaluating their effects on dye coupling in the network of A-type horizontal cells. We evaluated the following c...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Pan F,Mills SL,Massey SC

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rod and cone photoresponses in a variety of species have been accurately described with linear multistage filter models. In this study, the response latency and initial coding of intensity at two higher levels of visual processing are related to such photoreceptor responses. One level is the retinal output (spiking di...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Donner K

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human visual system is remarkably tolerant to degradation in image resolution: human performance in scene categorization remains high no matter whether low-resolution images or multimegapixel images are used. This observation raises the question of how many pixels are required to form a meaningful representation o...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Torralba A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observers performed red-green and yellow-blue hue cancellation tasks for a 0.8-deg circular test field on a dark surround, by manipulating the excitation level of one cone class while the other two classes were held constant. The results of the red-green judgments conformed to classical opponent color theory in that b...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Knoblauch K,Shevell SK

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand the evolution of spatial and color vision, the number and spatial distributions of cones, rods, and optic nerve axon numbers were assessed in seven New World primates (Cebus apella, Saimiri ustius, Saguinus midas niger, Alouatta caraya, Aotus azarae, Calllithrix jacchus, and Callicebus moloch). Th...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Finlay BL,Franco EC,Yamada ES,Crowley JC,Parsons M,Muniz JA,Silveira LC

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Color vision impairment was examined in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) without retinopathy. We assessed the type and degree of distortions of individual color spaces. DM2 patients (n = 32), and age-matched controls (n = 20) were tested using the Farnsworth D-15 and the Lanthony D-15d tests. In addition, ...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Feitosa-Santana C,Oiwa NN,Paramei GV,Bimler D,Costa MF,Lago M,Nishi M,Ventura DF

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accommodation is more accurate with polychromatic stimuli than with narrowband or monochromatic stimuli. The aim of this paper is to develop a computational model for how the visual system uses the extra information in polychromatic stimuli to increase the accuracy of accommodation responses. The proposed model is dev...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Flitcroft DI

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new tissue slice preparation of the cuttlefish eye is described that permits patch-clamp recordings to be acquired from intact photoreceptors during stimulation of the retina with controlled light flashes. Whole-cell recordings using this preparation, from the retinas of very young Sepia officinalis demonstrated tha...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Chrachri A,Nelson L,Williamson R

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are four cone morphologies in zebrafish, corresponding to UV (U), blue (B), green (G), and red (R)-sensing types; yet genetically, eight cone opsins are expressed. How eight opsins are physiologically siloed in four cone types is not well understood, and in larvae, cone physiological spectral peaks are unstudied...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Nelson RF,Balraj A,Suresh T,Torvund M,Patterson SS

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Population-based studies of retinal neurons have helped to reveal their natural types in mammals and teleost fishes. In this, the first such study in a frog, labeled ganglion cells of the mesobatrachian Xenopus laevis were examined in flatmounts. Cells with large somata and thick dendrites could be divided into three ...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Shamim KM,Tóth P,Cook JE

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The period of susceptibility for binocular depth vision was studied in kittens by subjecting them to periods of monocular deprivation beginning at different ages. In an initial study, we found that normally reared kittens can learn a depth-discrimination task much more rapidly when tested binocularly than monocularly,...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Timney B

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lesion or inactivation of the superior colliculus (SC) of the cat results in an animal that fails to orient toward peripheral visual stimuli which normally evoke a brisk, reflexive orienting response. A failure to orient toward a visual stimulus could be the result of a sensory impairment (a failure to detect the visu...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Fitzmaurice MC,Ciaramitaro VM,Palmer LA,Rosenquist AC

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the grating acuity and contrast sensitivity of cats whose eye position was monitored with a scleral search-coil technique. During each trial, the cat was required to maintain fixation on a laser spot and respond to the presence or the absence of a grating by pressing a right or left pedal. With this proced...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Pasternak T,Horn K

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The retina of salmonid fishes has two types of cone photoreceptors: single and double cones. At the nuclear level, these cones are distributed in a square mosaic such that the double cones form the sides of the square and the single cones occupy positions at the centre and at the corners of the square. Double cones co...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Cheng CL,Flamarique IN

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inferior temporal (IT) cortex is a "high-order" region of extrastriate visual cortex important for visual form perception and recognition in adult primates. The pattern of cortical afferents from both ipsilateral and contralateral hemispheres to anterior IT cortex was determined in infant macaque monkeys 7-18 weeks of...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Rodman HR,Consuelos MJ

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the steady-state PERG in human subjects in response to red-green plaid patterns modulated either in luminance or in chromaticity or both. By varying the relative luminance of the red and green components, a value could be obtained at which the PERG amplitude was either minimum or locally maximum. This ...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Morrone C,Porciatti V,Fiorentini A,Burr DC

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The laminar and tangential organization of visual callosal projections of areas 17 and 18 were investigated in the adult ferret, using histochemical methods to visualize axonally transported horseradish peroxidase (HRP). Normal adult ferrets were given injections of HRP throughout one visual cortex or had gelfoam soak...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Grigonis AM,Rayos del Sol-Padua RB,Murphy EH

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tritiated neurotransmitter candidates were unilaterally injected in visual cortical regions with abundant corpus callosum connections. D-aspartate (Asp) or gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) was injected along the area 17/18 border in cat, and the area 17/18a and 17/18b borders in rat. Retrograde Asp label was found contr...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Elberger AJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, two cannabinoid receptors, CB1 and CB2, have been cloned. The CB1 receptor has been found in a variety of tissues, particularly in the brain. CB2 receptor mRNA is mainly expressed in the immune system, though one group has found it in mouse cerebellum. Previous immunostaining studies in our lab demonstrated t...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Lu Q,Straiker A,Lu Q,Maguire G

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described the currents flowing across the presynaptic membranes of the four median photoreceptors of the giant barnacle, Balanus nubilus, using a quasi-voltage clamp arrangement. Membrane potential, measured in the terminal region of one photoreceptor, was controlled in all four terminals by feedback current s...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Hayashi JH,Stuart AE

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to compare standard multifocal visual evoked potential (mfVEP) pattern-reversal responses with those produced by pattern-onset, pattern-offset, and pulsed pattern stimuli. mfVEP recordings were obtained from five normal subjects using VERIS and a 4-electrode array. The standard rev...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Fortune B,Demirel S,Bui BV

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibition of [3H]acetylcholine (ACh) release from cholinergic amacrine cells by glycine and GABA was studied using an in vivo eyecup preparation in anesthetized rabbits. Glycine (1 mM) had no effect on basal ACh release, but completely blocked the light-evoked release of ACh. Glycine also blocked the strong poten...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Linn DM

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00