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Visual-field map in the callosal recipient zone at the border between areas 17 and 18 in the cat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2009

B. R. Payne  and
D. F. Siwek
B. R. Payne
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston
D. F. Siwek
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston
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Abstract

The representation of the visual field in the callosal fiber recipient zone of area 17 and the adjacent area 17/18 transition zone was determined in the cat. The callosal fiber recipient zone was identified by anterograde transport of tritiated amino acids that had been injected into transcallosal sending zone of the opposite hemisphere. Application of autoradiographic procedures revealed that transcallosal projections are densest in the area 17/18 transition zone, and that their density in area 17 diminishes within 1–2 mm of the transition zone. Of 980 sites sampled in the visual-field mapping part of the study, 507 proved to be in the zone demarcated by transcallosally transported label. In this zone, both ipsilateral- and contralateral-field positions are represented, and the representation of the visual field at the different elevations is not equal. When ipsilateral-field positions are considered, the representation extends to about 4 deg close to the visual axis, and to 15–20 deg at elevations >±30 deg, the representation is approximately mirror-symmetric about the horizontal meridian, and the representation is concordant with that of the representation in the area 17 transcallosal sending zone of the opposite hemisphere.

Keywords

Visual cortexMapElectrophysiologyReceptive fieldsCorpus callosum
Type
Research Articles
Information
Visual Neuroscience , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , September 1991 , pp. 221 - 236
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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