Correlated activity of lateral geniculate neurones in binocularly deprived cats.
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Pairs of single neurones were recorded simultaneously from lateral geniculate nucleus of adult cats binocularly deprived of pattern vision by rearing in masks. Receptive fields of cells in laminae A and A1 were highly abnormal with unusually small proportion of Y-type fields and some neurones characterized by ON/OFF type of responses. In spite of these changes all crosscorrelogram patterns between spontaneous firing of these cells were similar to those previously observed in normal cats.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Acta neurobiologiae experimentalis
دوره 54 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1994