Organization of direction preferences in cat visual cortex

Brain Res. 1981 May 4;211(2):445-50. doi: 10.1016/0006-8993(81)90971-9.

Abstract

Single unit recordings were made from the visual cortex of 5 adult cats. Visual stimuli were used to determine the stimulus orientation and direction of movement preferred by cortical cells. Analysis of the sequence of neurons recorded along each electrode penetration and their direction preferences indicates that neurons preferring similar directions of movement are clustered together in the cortex.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cats
  • Electric Conductivity
  • Functional Laterality
  • Movement*
  • Neurons / physiology
  • Visual Cortex / physiology*