The rabbit and the cat: a comparison of some features of response properties of single cells in the primary visual cortex

The Journal of Comparative Neurology
E H Murphy, N Berman

Abstract

Receptive field characteristics of single cells in primary visual cortex of rabbit were studied. Seventy-two percent of cells were found to be orientation selective, and the remainder had concentric, uniform, movement selective or pure direction selective receptive fields. Single cells were also recorded from primary visual cortex of cat to permit a comparison of visual cortical organization in cats and rabbits. Laminar organization of receptive field types was observed in rabbits which was similar in most respects to that described in the cat. Although the major categories of orientation selective cells (simple, complex, hypercomplex) were similar for both cat and rabbit, many differences emerged: (I) tuning of orientation selectivity was narrower in cats than in rabbits; (II) units which preferred oblique orientations were less frequently represented in rabbits than in cats; (III) orientation preferences appeared to be arranged in clusters in rabbit cortex; in rabbits we found no evidence of the columnar organization of orientation selectivity which characterizes cat visual cortex. A comparison of our data with those previously reported for mouse, rat, hamster and opossum visual cortex suggest that mammals in which a signific...Continue Reading

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