Direction sensitivity is an important receptive property of visual cortical cells.On thesubcortical visual pathways,recent studies have shown that about 32% of LGNd relay cellsand 25% of retinal ganglion cells present...Direction sensitivity is an important receptive property of visual cortical cells.On thesubcortical visual pathways,recent studies have shown that about 32% of LGNd relay cellsand 25% of retinal ganglion cells presented direction sensitivity.This kind of directionsensitivity was also present in LGNd neurons of decorticate cats and dark-reared cats.Zhou et al.described two different types of direction sensitive cells in展开更多
Since Levick et al. found and studied the orientation biases of retinal ganglion cells of cats, there has been increasing interest in subcortical orientation sensitivity. Shou et al. studied the orientation sensitivit...Since Levick et al. found and studied the orientation biases of retinal ganglion cells of cats, there has been increasing interest in subcortical orientation sensitivity. Shou et al. studied the orientation sensitivity of dorsal geniculate nucleus (LGNd) relay cells of the cat in details. They found that cells with similar preferred orientation are clustered in the LGNd, which is apparent for all cell types (ON, OFF, X, Y) and cells with different receptive field locations in retina. It is suggested that the initial sorting of orientation functional columns in the visual cortex may begin in the LGNd.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)the State. Science and Technology Commission of ChinaLaboratory for Visual Information Processing, Institute of Biophysics, CAS.
文摘Direction sensitivity is an important receptive property of visual cortical cells.On thesubcortical visual pathways,recent studies have shown that about 32% of LGNd relay cellsand 25% of retinal ganglion cells presented direction sensitivity.This kind of directionsensitivity was also present in LGNd neurons of decorticate cats and dark-reared cats.Zhou et al.described two different types of direction sensitive cells in
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Academia Sinica, the National Science and Technology Commission of China, Huo Ying-Dong Foundation for Young Teachers and the Award for Young Teachers of the National Education Commis
文摘Since Levick et al. found and studied the orientation biases of retinal ganglion cells of cats, there has been increasing interest in subcortical orientation sensitivity. Shou et al. studied the orientation sensitivity of dorsal geniculate nucleus (LGNd) relay cells of the cat in details. They found that cells with similar preferred orientation are clustered in the LGNd, which is apparent for all cell types (ON, OFF, X, Y) and cells with different receptive field locations in retina. It is suggested that the initial sorting of orientation functional columns in the visual cortex may begin in the LGNd.
