title: Visual cells in the inferior colliculus of the cat.
abstract: Extracellular recordings from 91 cells of the pericentral nucleus (ICP) of the inferior colliculus of the cat revealed that 83 of them were responsive to auditory stimuli and the other 8 to visual stimuli. All visually driven cells were binocular and showed large receptive fields located in the contralateral hemifield. The best stimulus was either a spot or a bar moved in any direction across the receptive field. No directional selectivity was found. It is suggested that the visual input to the ICP participates in an integrated reflex-orienting behavior, in which the visual information is important for the localization of the sound source.
authors: Laboratorio de Neurobiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, P. Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago.
authors: G G
authors: GG
authors: Mascetti
authors: L
authors: L
authors: Strozzi
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D007839:Functional Laterality; D007245:Inferior Colliculi / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D014796:Visual Perception