Taking a comparative approach, data from a range of visual species are discussed in the
context of ideas about mechanisms of motion detection. The cellular basis of motion …

The lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) has often been treated in the past as a linear filter that
adds little to retinal processing of visual inputs. Here we review anatomical …

Biological structures can be seen as collections of special devices coordinated by a matrix of
organization. Devices are dif? cult to evolve and are meticulously conserved through the …

Inhibitory neurons dominate the intrinsic circuits in the visual thalamus. Interneurons in the
lateral geniculate nucleus innervate relay cells and each other densely to provide powerful …

Mareschal, Isabelle and Curtis L. Baker, Jr. Temporal and spatial response to second-order
stimuli in cat area 18. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 2811–2823, 1998. Approximately one-half of the …

1. The visual cortex receives several types of afferents from the lateral geniculate nucleus
(LGN) of the thalamus. In the cat, previous work studied the ON/OFF and X/Y distinctions …

Simultaneous recording in the cat's retina and lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) was used to
find excitatory inputs to LGN cells. These recordings, correlated with measurements of LGN …

Responses of 71 cells in areas 17 and 18 of the cat visual cortex were recorded
extracellularly while stimulating with gratings drifting in each direction across the receptive …

Recent studies have examined the temporal precision of spiking in visual system neurons,
but less is known about the time scale that is relevant for behaviorally important visual …

Reverse correlation was used in conjunction with ternary white noise to estimate the first-
order spatiotemporal receptive-field structure of LGN cells in the anesthetized, paralyzed cat …