Electrical stimulation of the visual cortex as the conditioned stimulus in peripherally blind rats.

1962 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 492-494
Author(s):  
G. J. Mogenson
Author(s):  
Andrew Talalla ◽  
Leo Bullara ◽  
Robert Pudenz

SUMMARY:A feasibility study for the development of a human visual prosthesis has led several workers to observe the effects of electrical stimulation of the human visual cortex. Experience with such stimulations of three normal-sighted patients is reported. The results confirm some of the findings of other workers, but do not show that multiple phosphenes were experienced by our patients, using strictly limited parameters of stimulation.


2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 036009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary Cicione ◽  
Mohit N Shivdasani ◽  
James B Fallon ◽  
Chi D Luu ◽  
Penny J Allen ◽  
...  

1987 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 977-1001 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. A. Swadlow ◽  
T. G. Weyand

The intrinsic stability of the rabbit eye was exploited to enable receptive-field analysis of antidromically identified corticotectal (CT) neurons (n = 101) and corticogeniculate (CG) neurons (n = 124) in visual area I of awake rabbits. Eye position was monitored to within 1/5 degrees. We also studied the receptive-field properties of neurons synaptically activated via electrical stimulation of the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (LGNd). Whereas most CT neurons had either complex (59%) or motion/uniform (15%) receptive fields, we also found CT neurons with simple (9%) and concentric (4%) receptive fields. Most complex CT cells were broadly tuned to both stimulus orientation and velocity, but only 41% of these cells were directionally selective. We could elicit no visual responses from 6% of CT cells, and these cells had significantly lower conduction velocities than visually responsive CT cells. The median spontaneous firing rates for all classes of CT neurons were 4-8 spikes/s. CG neurons had primarily simple (60%) and concentric (9%) receptive fields, and none of these cells had complex receptive fields. CG simple cells were more narrowly tuned to both stimulus orientation and velocity than were complex CT cells, and most (85%) were directionally selective. Axonal conduction velocities of CG neurons (mean = 1.2 m/s) were much lower than those of CT neurons (mean = 6.4 m/s), and CG neurons that were visually unresponsive (23%) had lower axonal conduction velocities than did visually responsive CG neurons. Some visually unresponsive CG neurons (14%) responded with saccadic eye movements. The median spontaneous firing rates for all classes of CG neurons were less than 1 spike/s. All neurons synaptically activated via LGNd stimulation at latencies of less than 2.0 ms had receptive fields that were not orientation selective (89% motion/uniform, 11% concentric), whereas most cells with orientation-selective receptive fields had considerably longer synaptic latencies. Most short-latency motion/uniform neurons responded to electrical stimulation of the LGNd (and visual area II) with a high-frequency burst (500-900 Hz) of three or more spikes. Action potentials of these neurons were of short duration, thresholds of synaptic activation were low, and spontaneous firing rates were the highest seen in rabbit visual cortex. These properties are similar to those reported for interneurons in several regions in mammalian central nervous system. Nonvisual sensory stimuli that resulted in electroencephalographic arousal (hippocampal theta activity) had a profound effect on the visual responses of many visual cortical neurons.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)


1985 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 365-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takuji Kasamatsu ◽  
Kazushige Watabe ◽  
Paul Heggelund ◽  
Erling Schöller

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (14) ◽  
pp. 1867-1872 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M.G. Reinhart ◽  
Wenxi Xiao ◽  
Laura J. McClenahan ◽  
Geoffrey F. Woodman

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (23) ◽  
pp. 1839-1843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryota Kanai ◽  
Leila Chaieb ◽  
Andrea Antal ◽  
Vincent Walsh ◽  
Walter Paulus

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