Cerebral Cortex Advance Access originally published online on March 9, 2005
Cerebral Cortex 2005 15(12):1887-1899; doi:10.1093/cercor/bhi067
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Organization of Horizontal Axons in the Inferior Temporal Cortex and Primary Visual Cortex of the Macaque Monkey
1 Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Osaka University Medical School, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, 2 Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-8531, Japan and 3 Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-8531, Japan
Address correspondence to Ichiro Fujita, Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, 1–3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan. Email: fujita{at}fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp.
We investigated the organization of horizontal connections at two distinct hierarchical levels in the ventral visual cortical pathway of the monkey, the inferior temporal (TE) and primary visual (V1) cortices. After injections of anterograde tracers into layers 2 and 3, clusters of terminals (‘patches’) of labeled horizontal collaterals in TE appeared at various distances up to 8 mm from the injection site, while in V1 clear patches were distributed only within 2 mm. The size and spacing of these patches in TE were larger and more irregular than those observed in V1. The labeling intensity of patches in V1 declined sharply with distance from the injection site. This tendency was less obvious in TE; a number of densely labeled patches existed at distant sites beyond weakly labeled patches. While injections into both areas resulted in an elongated pattern of patches, the anisotropy was greater in TE than in V1 for injections of a similar size. Dual tracer injections and larger-sized injections further revealed that the adjacent sites in TE had spatially distinct horizontal projections, compared to those in V1. These area-specific characteristics of the horizontal connections may contribute to the differences in visual information processing of TE and V1.
Key Words: functional column • inferotemporal cortex • intrinsic connections • object recognition
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