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Investigating Object Representations in the Macaque Dorsal Visual Stream Using Single-unit Recordings
Published on: August 1, 2018
[Neuronal coding of spatial visual information]
1Szegedi Tudományegyetem, Altalános Orvostudományi Kar, Elettani Intézet, Pszichiátriai Klinika, Szeged. eordegh@nepsy.szote.u-szeged.hu
Unlabelled:
The main differences between the geniculate and the ascending tectal/extrageniculate visual systems are the presence of multisensory units and the absence of the strict retinotopical organization in the tectal system.
Aim:
To investigate the coding of the visual and multisensory information in the tectal system, and to clarify the direction of visual information flow between the extrastriate cortex along the anterior ectosylvian sulcus and the lateral medialis-suprageniculate nucleus of the posterior thalamus.
Method:
Extracellular single-cell recordings were carried out in anesthetized, immobilized cats to visual and multisensory stimulation.
Result:
The thalamo-cortical route seems to have a dominant role in the bidirectional information flow between the LM-Sg and the AES cortex. The panoramic neurons in the AES cortex and the LM-Sg may code in their discharge rate the site of the spatial visual and multisensory information and exhibited multisensory cross-modal integration.
Conclusion:
Our results demonstrate the existence of a distributed population code of spatial multisensory information in the tectal visual system.
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