Surgically created neural pathways mediate visual pattern discrimination
| Autor: | Guy Gingras, Maurice Ptito, Denis Boire, Douglas O. Frost |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Retina
Multidisciplinary Auditory Pathways genetic structures Topographic map (neuroanatomy) Thalamus Retinal Sensory system Anatomy Visual system Biology Biological Sciences Auditory cortex eye diseases chemistry.chemical_compound medicine.anatomical_structure Visual cortex chemistry Cricetinae medicine Animals Visual Pathways Neuroscience |
| Popis: | Combined lesions of retinal targets and ascending auditory pathways can induce, in developing animals, permanent retinal projections to auditory thalamic nuclei and to visual thalamic nuclei that normally receive little direct retinal input. Neurons in the auditory cortex of such animals have visual response properties that resemble those of neurons in the primary visual cortex of normal animals. Therefore, we investigated the behavioral function of the surgically induced retino-thalamo-cortical pathways. We showed that both surgically induced pathways can mediate visually guided behaviors whose normal substrate, the pathway from the retina to the primary visual cortex via the primary thalamic visual nucleus, is missing. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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