FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION OF VISUAL AREA MT

该子项目是利用 由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源。子项目和 研究者（PI）可能从另一个NIH来源获得主要资金， 因此可以在其他CRISP条目中表示。列出的机构是 中心，不一定是研究者的机构。 我们希望了解灵长类动物皮层视觉区MT在视觉运动线索处理中的作用。 通过研究这一区域单个神经元的刺激-反应特性以及它们与大脑其他区域连接的性质，我们希望了解神经元的感受野特性是如何产生的，以及它们对动物的作用。 我们使用单神经元记录和2-脱氧葡萄糖来建立MT区域的视觉地图的图片，并结合体内成像的解剖示踪实验来了解该地图如何连接到大脑的其他区域。 这项研究将阐明大脑如何组织和处理感觉信息，以及这些信息如何提供给需要它的各种运动系统。

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. We wish to understand the role that primate cortical visual area MT plays in the processing of visual motion cues. By studying the stimulus-response properties of single neurons in this area and the nature of their connections with other regions of the brain, we hope to learn how the receptive field properties of the neurons come about and how they are useful to the animal. We use single neuron recording and 2-deoxyglucose to build up a picture of the visual map in area MT, and anatomical tracer experiments combined with in vivo imaging to learn how this map is connected to other areas of the brain. The study will shed light on the problems of how the brain organizes and processes sensory information, and how this information is made available to the various motor systems that need it.