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In this chapter, we discuss the types of visual receptive fields revealed by single-unit electrophysiological recordings in the pulvinar. Nearly all neurons with identifiable receptive fields responded to visual stimulation presented on the contralateral hemifield, within 25° of the fovea. The majority of the visual neurons responded to some form of moving stimulus, and some additionally exhibited direction or orientation selectivity. Most units could be driven by monocular stimulation and showed receptive fields of at least 100 square degrees in area. Finally, most of the units recorded exhibited continuous peripheral receptive fields, even though a few of them could be bilaterally activated.
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Gattass, R., Soares, J.G.M., Lima, B. (2018). Response Properties of Pulvinar Neurons Studied with Single-Unit Electrophysiological Recordings. In: The Pulvinar Thalamic Nucleus of Non-Human Primates: Architectonic and Functional Subdivisions. Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology, vol 225. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70046-5_9
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