Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol 38, Issue 6 1403-1420, Copyright © 1975 by APS

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Receptive-field characteristics of single neurons in lateral suprasylvian visual area of the cat

P. D. Spear and T. P. Baumann

The visual receptive fields of 213 cells in the lateral suprasylvian visual cortex (LS, or Clare-Bishop area) were studied in cats anesthetized with nitrous oxide. Eighty-one percent of the cells were directionally selective. They responded poorly to stationary stimuli flashed on or off, but gave a directionally selective response to stimuli moving through the receptive field. Most of these had a single preferred direction and an opposite null direction. They typically responded to a range of directions of stimulus movement from 45 to 90 degrees to either side of the preferred direction. Small stimuli (1-2 degrees or smaller) typically were effective and 87% of the directionally selective cells showed spatial summation. About 32% had inhibitory mechanisms which decreased the response of the cell if the stimulus exceeded a maximum size. There was little or no evidence that LS area cells were orientation selective or sensitive to variations in stimulus shape independent of size.

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