PMID: 11927691Apr 3, 2002Paper

Synaptic physiology of the flow of information in the cat's visual cortex in vivo

The Journal of Physiology
Judith A HirschCarhine Pierre

Abstract

Each stage of the striate cortical circuit extracts novel information about the visual environment. We asked if this analytic process reflected laminar variations in synaptic physiology by making whole-cell recording with dye-filled electrodes from the cat's visual cortex and thalamus; the stimuli were flashed spots. Thalamic afferents terminate in layer 4, which contains two types of cell, simple and complex, distinguished by the spatial structure of the receptive field. Previously, we had found that the postsynaptic and spike responses of simple cells reliably followed the time course of flash-evoked thalamic activity. Here we report that complex cells in layer 4 (or cells intermediate between simple and complex) similarly reprised thalamic activity (response/trial, 99 +/- 1.9 %; response duration 159 +/- 57 ms; latency 25 +/- 4 ms; average +/- standard deviation; n = 7). Thus, all cells in layer 4 share a common synaptic physiology that allows secure integration of thalamic input. By contrast, at the second cortical stage (layer 2+3), where layer 4 directs its output, postsynaptic responses did not track simple patterns of antecedent activity. Typical responses to the static stimulus were intermittent and brief (response/tri...Continue Reading

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