To test this, we made high-resolution spatial maps of receptive fields in the developing ferret lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN). Developing receptive fields (RFs), had a variety of shapes ...

Sensory relay nuclei - These include the ventral posterior nucleus and the lateral and medial geniculate body. These nuclei relay primary sensations, by passing specific sensory information to the ...

Figure 2: Visual processing in V1-lesioned monkeys. Figure 3: Role of the LGN in driving V1-independent visual processing. After we had inactivated the LGN, virtually all extrastriate responses in ...

I specialize in measuring the visual subcortex—the lateral geniculate nucleus, pulvinar and thalamic reticular nucleus in the thalamus, and the superior colliculus—using structural and functional ...

They used genetic silencing to learn more about which of the cells was responsible for communicating with the ventral lateral geniculate nucleus in the thalamus. Next, the team monitored such ...