Cerebral Cortex, Vol. 10, No. 12, 1217-1232,
December 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press
Modulatory Influence of Feedback Projections from Area 21a on Neuronal Activities in Striate Cortex of the Cat
1 Departments of Anatomy and Histology and , 2 Physiology, Institute for Biomedical Research, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia and , 3 Department of Neurophysiology, Nencki Insitute of Experimental Biology, 3 Pasteur Street, Warsaw 02-093, Poland
We have examined the influence of ‘feedback’ projections from extrastriate visual cortical area 21a on the responses of neurons in area 17 of the cat, by cooling area 21a to 5–10°C while the temperature over the recording sites was kept at 36°C. Orientation, direction and length selectivities as well as contrast sensitivity were tested before and during cooling and after rewarming of area 21a. Overall, for the sample of cells recorded from the part of area 17 visuotopically corresponding to area 21a, the ‘spontaneous’ activity (at background illumination of 1 cd/m2) and the responsiveness to visual stimuli of standard contrast (15) were significantly reduced by inactivation of area 21a. In about half of the cells inactivation of area 21a affected substantially the sharpness of orientation-tuning. However, only in a minority of the cells were the direction or length selectivities significantly affected by inactivation of area 21a. Thus (i) the feedback projections from area 21a appear to exert mainly an excitatory influence on the background activity and responsiveness of area 17 cells and (ii) only in subgroups of area 17 cells does the feedback activity originating from area 21a appear to modulate specifically certain receptive field properties.
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