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Cerebral Cortex Advance Access originally published online on December 7, 2007
Cerebral Cortex 2008 18(8):1951-1960; doi:10.1093/cercor/bhm222
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Stimulus-Dependent Interaction between the Visual Areas 17 and 18 of the 2 Hemispheres of the Ferret (Mustela putorius)

Valeri A. Makarov1, Kerstin E. Schmidt2, Nazareth P. Castellanos1, Laura Lopez-Aguado1 and Giorgio M. Innocenti3

1 Department of Applied Mathematics, School of Optics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28037 Madrid, Spain, 2 Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany, 3 Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, S17177 Stockholm, Sweden

Address correspondence to Prof. Giorgio M. Innocenti, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Retzius väg 8, S-17177 Stockholm, Sweden. Email Giorgio.Innocenti{at}ki.se.

To study how the visual areas of the 2 hemispheres interact in processing visual stimuli we have recorded local field potentials in the callosally connected parts of areas 17 and 18 of the ferret during the presentation of 3 kinds of stimuli: 2.5° squares flashed for 50 ms randomly in the visual field (S1), 4 full-field gratings differing in orientation by 45° and identical in the 2 hemifields (S2) and gratings as above but whose orientation and/or direction of motion differed by 90° in the 2 hemifields (S3). The gratings remained stationary for 0.5 s and then moved in 1 of the 2 directions perpendicular to their orientation for 3 s. We compared the responses in baseline conditions with those obtained whereas the contralateral visual areas were inactivated by cooling. Cooling did not affect the responses to S1 but it modified those to S2 and to S3 generally increasing early components of the response while decreasing later components. These findings indicate that interhemispheric processing is restricted to visual stimuli which achieve spatial summation and that it involves complex inhibitory and facilitatory effects, possibly carried out by interhemispheric pathways of different conduction velocity.

Key Words: cooling • corpus callosum • ferret • interhemispheric interactions • visual cortex

Valeri A. Makarov and Kerstin E. Schmidt contributed equally to this work.


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