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NEURON
Volume 35, Issue 6, Pages 1135-1146Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(02)00874-7
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- NEI NIH HHS [EY10742] Funding Source: Medline
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The magnocellular visual pathway is believed to receive input from long (L) and middle (M), but not short (S), wavelength-sensitive cones. Recording from neurons in magnocellular layers of lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) in macaque monkeys, we found that magnocellular neurons were unequivocally responsive to S cone-isolating stimuli. A quantitative analysis suggests that S cones provided about 10% of the input to these cells, on average, while L:M ratios were far more variable. S cone signals influenced responses with the same sign as L and M cone inputs (i.e., no color opponency). Magnocellular afferent recordings following inactivation of primary visual cortex demonstrated that S cone signals were feedforward in nature and did not arise from cortical feedback to LGN.
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