Visual response properties of pretectal units in the nucleus of the optic tract of the opossum
Tóm tắt
Single-units were recorded from the nucleus of the optic tract. Most of the units showed excitation in response to random check patterns presented on a tangent screen to the contralateral eye, moving in a temporal to nasal direction and/or inhibition in the opposite direction. The excitatory response to the temporal to nasal movement, observed in most units, was unchanged throughout the range of speeds tested, except for a decrease at the slowest (0.6 deg/s) and fastest (150 deg/s) speeds. On the other hand, the inhibitory responses evoked by a nasal to temporal movement, had a peak between 3 and 16 deg/s which decreased towards both extremes. An average of 45% of the units were influenced by the stimulation of the ipsilateral eye. In one third of them the response was very weak. In the remainder, the mean frequency of spikes in one direction of the horizontal movement was more than twice that in the opposite stimulus direction. In the great majority of these units, stimulation of each eye yielded the same overall pattern of directionality, that is, movement of the stimulus towards the recording side led to excitation and/or movement in the reverse direction led to inhibition. Inhibition was stronger than excitation in most ipsilaterally responding units. Excitatory responses elicited by the ipsilateral eye were always weaker than those by the contralateral but in a few cases the ipsilateral inhibitory component was more prominent than the contralateral one.
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