SPECIALIZATIONS OF THE HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM

这个子项目是利用由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供的资源的许多研究子项目之一。子项目和调查员(PI)可能从另一个NIH来源获得了主要资金，因此可能会出现在其他CRISE条目中。列出的机构是针对中心的，而不一定是针对调查员的机构。人类的视觉系统与其他灵长类动物有许多相似之处，这导致了猕猴被广泛用作人类视觉系统的模型。然而，物种的视觉系统结构也不同，尽管很少有人试图严格记录人类与其他灵长类动物的不同之处以及相似之处。该项目使用组织学染色技术来比较视觉皮质和丘脑人类、黑猩猩(与人类关系最密切的动物)和其他灵长类动物的神经元表型和微观组织结构。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The human visual system shares much in common with that of other primates, which has led to the widespread use of macaque monkeys as models of the human visual system. Nevertheless, species also vary in their visual system organization, although few attempts have been made to rigorously document the ways in which humans differ from, as well as resemble, other primates. This project uses histological staining techniques to compare neuronal phenotypes and microscopic tissue organization in the visual cortex and thalamus humans, chimpanzees (the animals to which humans are most closely related), and other primates.