The spread of activity in the cerebral cortex
The spread of activity in the cerebral cortex
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DOI:
10.1113/jphysiol.1936.sp003427
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发表时间:
1936-11-01
影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
Adrian, ED
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作者:
Adrian, ED
The main object of the present paper is to investigate such questions as what kind of cortical activity is revealed by a given potential change; what structures are responsible for the potential changes, or how excitations spread from one neurone to another, when the brain is stimulated electrically, and its activity recorded not by the movements of limbs, but by the action potentials developed at its surface. The observations were made on rabbits, cats and monkeys, under dial anesthesia. The simplest response to a weak stimulus is a potential change in which the stimulated region becomes negative to points a few mm. away. Repeated stimulation with stronger currents brings about a change in the form of the response. The stimulated region now becomes positive due to elements with the active region some distance below the surface.