Correlated activity of lateral geniculate neurones in binocularly deprived cats

Abstract

Pairs of single neurones were recorded simultaneously from lateral geniculate nucleus of adult cats binocularly deprived of pattern vision by rearing in masks. Receptive fields of cells in laminae A and A1 were highly abnormal with unusually small proportion of Y-type fields and some neurones characterized by ON/OFF type of responses. In spite of these changes all crosscorrelogram patterns between spontaneous firing of these cells were similar to those previously observed in normal cats.