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The responses of magno- and parvocellular cells of the monkey's lateral geniculate body to moving stimuli

✍ Scribed by B. B. Lee; O. D. Creutzfeldt; A. Elepfandt

Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Year: 1979
Tongue: English
Weight: 609 KB
Volume: 35
Category: Article
ISSN: 0014-4819
DOI: 10.1007/bf00236771

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✦ Synopsis

The responses to moving stimuli of single cells in the parvo- and magnocellular layers (PCL and MCL) of the macaque lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) have been studied. PCL cells respond with a monophasic increase or decrease in firing when a bar passes across the receptive field, according to the wavelength composition of the stimulus. MCL cells respond with a biphasic sequence of excitation and suppression or vice versa dependent on whether a cell is on-centre or off-centre and on stimulus contrast direction. With large stimuli, PCL cells respond as long as the stimulus covers the receptive field while MCL cells respond only at the contrast borders. MCL cell responses are maximal with bars just long enough to cover the field centre, while PCL cell responses show a variable relation with bar length, depending on stimulus wavelength and receptive field structure. PCL cells show broad velocity tuning while at least some MCL cells were more sharply tuned. Many cells in the macaque LGN show weak orientation or direction preference.

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