Isolation of components due to intracortical processing in the visual evoked potential. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • A class of stochastic visual textures are used to analyze the components of the visual evoked potential (VEP). This procedure exploits the differential sensitivity of populations of visual neurons to aspects of contrast and pattern. A simple transformation of VEP responses elicited by these stimuli separates components that reflect complex aspects of visual processing from those that reflect elementary aspects. Simultaneous recordings of the VEP and cellular activity in the cat lateral geniculate nucleus are obtained. Responses to traditional VEP stimuli contain a mixture of intracortically generated and precortically generated components. A theoretical and experimental analysis demonstrates that the present approach cleanly separates intracortical generators of the VEP from precortical generators.

publication date

  • October 1, 1986

Research

keywords

  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Evoked Potentials, Visual

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC386849

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0022996095

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1073/pnas.83.20.7984

PubMed ID

  • 3464015

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 83

issue

  • 20