ORGANIZATION OF CAT VISUAL-CORTEX AS INVESTIGATED BY CROSS-CORRELATION TECHNIQUE
ORGANIZATION OF CAT VISUAL-CORTEX AS INVESTIGATED BY CROSS-CORRELATION TECHNIQUE
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DOI:
10.1152/jn.1981.46.2.202
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
TANAKA, K
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作者:
TOYAMA, K;KIMURA, M;TANAKA, K
In the cat visual cortex (area 17), interactions between cells of various response types (simple, complex, hypercomplex I, hypercomplex II and cells with an exclusively on (eon-cells) or off area (eoff-cells)) were studied with cross-correlation techniques. The 3 basic types of interneuronal connectivities, common excitation, intracortical excitation and intracortical inhibition, were related to 3 factors: response types, locations in cortical layers and locations in ocular dominance and orientation columns. Common excitation appeared in all combinations of response types except for those containing a hypercomplex II cell. Intracortical excitation occurred in only 2 combinations: from a complex to a complex cell and from a complex to a hypercomplex II cell. Intracortical inhibition was also confined to 4 combinations: from an eon- or eoff-cell to a simple cell, from a simple to a complex cell, from an eon- or eoff-cell to a complex cell, and between eon- and eoff-cells. Common excitation was observed in neuronal pairs in almost the entire extent of layers III-V. Intracortical excitation was exerted from a source cell near the border between layers III and IV to target cells in layers II and III. Source cells for intracortical inhibition were confined to the deeper half of layer IV and target cells to a part of the middle layers extending for a perpendicular distance of 200-300 .mu.m. Common excitation occurred in neuronal pairs that were distanced across several orientation columns, while intracortical excitation and inhibition were restricted to those in the same or neighboring orientation columns. All 3 interneuronal types of connections were confined to a single ocular dominance column. Geniculate excitation (the basis for common excitation) apparently spreads both perpendicularly and tangentially in a relatively large space of the visual cortex and impinges commonly onto cells of diverse response types, while intrinsic cortical excitation and inhibition are restricted to cells of specific response types in a small cortical space. Geniculate input probably provides cortical cells with general photic responsiveness and differentiation of response types primarily depends on intrinsic cortical inputs.