Contribution of striate cortex and the superior colliculus to visual function in area MT, the superior temporal polysensory area and the inferior temporal cortex - PubMed (original) (raw)
Contribution of striate cortex and the superior colliculus to visual function in area MT, the superior temporal polysensory area and the inferior temporal cortex
C G Gross. Neuropsychologia. 1991.
Abstract
We studied the visual responses of single neurons in three extra-striate visual areas of the macaque following lesions of striate cortex, lesions of the tecto-pulvinar system or both. After striate lesions, there was (a) considerable specific activity remaining in area MT including direction selectivity, (b) only non-specific activity in the superior temporal polysensory area (STP), and (c) no visual responsiveness at all in inferior temporal cortex (IT). In animals with striate lesions, interruption of the tecto-pulvinar pathway eliminated the residual visual activity in MT and STP that survived the striate lesions. Interruption of the tecto-pulvinar pathway alone had little or no effect on visual evoked activity in any of the three areas. These results are related to the relative dependence of visual responsiveness in MT, STP and IT on striate cortex and the superior colliculus, to differences between the dorsal and ventral cortical processing streams, and to neural mechanisms underlying blind sight.
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