REVERSIBLE INACTIVATION OF VISUAL PROCESSING OPERATIONS IN MIDDLE SUPRASYLVIAN CORTEX OF THE BEHAVING CAT

被引:56
作者
LOMBER, SG [1 ]
CORNWELL, P [1 ]
SUN, JS [1 ]
MACNEIL, MA [1 ]
PAYNE, BR [1 ]
机构
[1] PENN STATE UNIV,DEPT PSYCHOL,UNIV PK,PA 16802
关键词
EXTRASTRIATE CORTEX; PERCEPTION; MOTION; FIGURE GROUND SEPARATION; COOLING;
D O I
10.1073/pnas.91.8.2999
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Extrastriate visual areas on the banks of the middle suprasylvian sulcus were inactivated by cooling to assess the behavioral contribution of this cortical region to the extraction of a stationary figure from a moving mask. Cooling blocked figure-ground separation when the mask was moving but had no influence when the mask was static. This difference provides strong evidence that the areas bounding the middle suprasylvian sulcus contribute to the neural separation of stationary from moving visual stimuli.
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页码:2999 / 3003
页数:5
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