Cortical neurons in and around the Clare-Bishop area related with lens accommodation in the cat.
Single-unit discharges in the cat Clare-Bishop area were correlated with spontaneous accommodation responses. No appreciable change was found in accommodation responses evoked by stimulating the Clare-Bishop area, when cerebellar outflow was blocked reversibly by cooling the superior cerebellar peduncle. It is suggested, therefore, that the Clare-Bishop area plays an important role in the lens accommodation system through a pathway independent from that of the cerebellum.
D000065:Accommodation, Ocular; D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000294:innervation*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology