Visual Cortex - Cytology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Selective targeting of the dendrites of corticothalamic cells by thalamic afferents in area 17 of the cat.

2 Nov 2009 Pyramidal cells of layer 6 in cat visual cortex are the source of the corticothalamic projection, and their recurrent collaterals provide substantially more excitatory synapses in layer 4 than does the thalamic input. They have predominantly simple ... Read more...

Frequency-band coupling in surface EEG reflects spiking activity in monkey visual cortex.

27 Oct 2009 Although the electroencephalogram (EEG) is widely used in research and clinical settings, its link to the underlying neural activity during sensory processing remains poorly understood. To investigate this, we made simultaneous recordings of surface ... Read more...

Quantitative analysis of neurons with Kv3 potassium channel subunits, Kv3.1b and Kv3.2, in macaque primary visual cortex.

29 Sep 2009 Voltage-gated potassium channels that are composed of Kv3 subunits exhibit distinct electrophysiological properties: activation at more depolarized potentials than other voltage-gated K+ channels and fast kinetics. These channels have been shown to ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Visual Cortex - Cytology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Selective targeting of the dendrites of corticothalamic cells by thalamic afferents in area 17 of the cat. 2 Nov 2009
• Frequency-band coupling in surface EEG reflects spiking activity in monkey visual cortex. 27 Oct 2009
• Quantitative analysis of neurons with Kv3 potassium channel subunits, Kv3.1b and Kv3.2, in macaque primary visual cortex. 29 Sep 2009
• Spatial attention decorrelates intrinsic activity fluctuations in macaque area V4. 22 Sep 2009
• Coding of stimulus sequences by population responses in visual cortex. 11 Sep 2009
• Analogous intermediate shape coding in vision and touch. 2 Sep 2009
• Visual adaptation to goal-directed hand actions. 30 Aug 2009
• The W cell pathway to cat primary visual cortex. 30 Aug 2009
• Rapid, long-term labeling of cells in the developing and adult rodent visual cortex using double-stranded adeno-associated viral vectors. 30 Aug 2009
• Constraint on the number of synaptic inputs to a visual cortical neuron controls receptive field formation. 30 Aug 2009
• A model for learning topographically organized parts-based representations of objects in visual cortex: topographic nonnegative matrix factorization. 30 Aug 2009
• Orientation disparity: a cue for 3D orientation? 30 Aug 2009
• MT neurons combine visual motion with a smooth eye movement signal to code depth-sign from motion parallax. 25 Aug 2009
• Visual receptive field structure of cortical inhibitory neurons revealed by two-photon imaging guided recording. 24 Aug 2009
• Stimulus ensemble and cortical layer determine V1 spatial receptive fields. 15 Aug 2009
• Desflurane selectively suppresses long-latency cortical neuronal response to flash in the rat. 30 Jul 2009
• Vestibular signals in macaque extrastriate visual cortex are functionally appropriate for heading perception. 13 Jul 2009
• Role of layer 6 of V2 visual cortex in object-recognition memory. Jul 2009
• An introduction to the work of David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel. 13 Jun 2009
• Republication of The Journal of Physiology (1959) 148, 574-591: Receptive fields of single neurones in the cat's striate cortex. 1959. 13 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Visual Cortex'

Definition: Area of the occipital lobe concerned with vision.

Descriptor UI: D014793

Alternative terms: Visual Cortex; Cortex, Visual; Striate Cortex; Cortex, Striate;

Allowable Qualifiers: abnormalities; anatomy & histology; blood supply; cytology; drug effects; embryology; enzymology; growth & development; immunology; injuries; metabolism; microbiology; parasitology; pathology; physiology; physiopathology; radiation effects; radiography; radionuclide imaging; secretion; surgery; transplantation; ultrastructure; ultrasonography; chemistry; virology;

Tree Number: A08.186.211.730.885.287.500.571.735;

History Note: 70(68)

Technical Notes: do not confuse STRIATE CORTEX with CORPUS STRIATUM (basal ganglia)