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Visual-field map in the transcallosal sending zone of area 17 in the cat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2009

B. R. Payne
B. R. Payne
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Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston
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Abstract

The representation of the visual field in the part of area 17 containing neurons that project axons across the corpus callosum to the contralateral hemisphere was defined in the cat. Of 1424 sites sampled along 77 electrode tracks, 768 proved to be in the callosal sending zone, which was identified by retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase that had been deposited in the opposite hemisphere. The results show that the callosal sending zone has a fairly constant width of between 3 and 4 mm at most levels in area 17. However, the representation of the contralateral field at the different elevations of the visual field is not equal in this zone. The zone represents positions within 4 deg of the midline at the 0-deg horizontal meridian, and positions out to 15-deg azimuths in the upper hemifield and out to positions of 25-deg azimuth in the lower hemifield. The shape of the representation is approximately mirror-symmetric about the horizontal meridian, although there is a greater extent in the lower hemifield, which can be accounted for by the greater range of elevations (>60 deg) represented there compared with the upper hemifield (-40 deg). The representation in the sending zone of one hemisphere matches that present in the area 17/18 transition zone, which receives the bulk of transcallosal projections, in the opposite hemisphere. The observations on the sending zone show that callosal connections of area 17 are concerned with a vertical hour-glass-shaped region of the visual field centered on the midline. The observations suggest that in addition to interactions between neurons concerned with positions immediately adjacent to the midline, there are positions, especially high and low in the visual field, where interactions can occur between neurons that have receptive fields displaced some distance from the midline.

Keywords

Visual cortexMapElectrophysiologyReceptive fieldsCorpus callosum
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Research Articles
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Visual Neuroscience , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , September 1991 , pp. 201 - 219
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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