Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Some responses of the superior colliculus of the cat and their control by the visual cortex

  • Kurze Mitteilungen
  • Published:
Experientia Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Résumé

A la stimulation périphérique on enregistre dans le colliculus supérieur du chat anesthésié au chloralose, trois types de réponses: réponse à la lumière, réponses somesthésiques et acoustiques de courte latence et réponses somesthésiques et acoustiques de longue latence. Les résponses somesthésiques et acoustiques de longue latence sont sous le contrôle du cortex visuel tandis que les réponses somesthésiques et acoustiques de courte latence ne dépendent pas de cette région corticale. La réponse à la lumière semble correspondre à une décharge complexe, comprenant l'activation de deux systèmes: un système direct rétino-colliculaire et un système indirect rétino-cortico-colliculaire.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. J. Altman, J. comp. Neurol.119, 77 (1962).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. C. U. A. Kappers, G. C. Huber, andE. C. Crosby, inComparative Anatomy of the Nervous System of Vertebrates, Including Man (Hafner, New York 1960), p. 979.

    Google Scholar 

  3. F. D. Anderson andC. M. Berry, J. comp. Neurol.111, 195 (1959).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  4. W. T. Niemer andJ. Jimenez-Castellanos, J. comp. Neurol.93, 101 (1950).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. S. Shanzer andS. Dumont-Tyc, J. Physiol. (Paris)53, 473 (1961).

    Google Scholar 

  6. F. Bremer, inSome Problems in Neurophysiology (University of London 1953), p. 79.

  7. R. Jung, H. H. Kornhuber, andJ. S. Da Fonseca, inInternational Colloquium on Specific and Unspecific Mechanisms of Sensory-Motor Integration, Pisa (1961), (Elsevier Publ. Co., in press).

  8. R. F. Thompson andR. M. Sindberg, J. Neurophysiol.23, 87 (1960).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. A. Forbes andR. S. Morison, J. Neurophysiol.2, 112 (1939).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. D. P. Purpura, J. Neurophysiol.18, 246 (1955).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  11. P. Buser andP. Borenstein, Electroenceph. clin. Neurophysiol., Suppl.6, 89 (1957).

    Google Scholar 

  12. J. Altman andL. I. Malis, Exper. Neurol.5, 233 (1962).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  13. P. Buser et al., inInternational Colloquium on Specific and Unspecific Mechanisms of Sensory-Motor Integration, Pisa (1961), (Elsevier Publ. Co., in press).

  14. P. Ascher, D. Jassik-Gerschenfeld, andP. Buser, Electroenceph. clin. Neurophysiol.15, 246 (1963).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  15. G. H. Bishop andM. H. Clare, J. comp. Neurol.103, 269 (1955).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  16. J. Altman andM. B. Carpenter, J. comp. Neurol.116, 157 (1961).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Instituto de Anatomía General y Embriología, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Dora Jassik-Gerschenfeld & P. Ascher

Authors
  1. Dora Jassik-Gerschenfeld
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. P. Ascher
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Jassik-Gerschenfeld, D., Ascher, P. Some responses of the superior colliculus of the cat and their control by the visual cortex. Experientia 19, 655–656 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02151305

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02151305

Keywords

Search

Navigation