Projections from the rostral pole of the inferior colliculus to the cat superior colliculus.
The neuroanatomical data given here reveal a dense projection from the rostral pole of the cat inferior colliculus (rpIC) to the superior colliculus (SC). A portion of this pathway distributes in 'patches' across the ventral portion of the intermediate grey layer. These finding suggest that the rpIC input to the SC might play a role in determining the auditory receptive fields of SGI neurons and in the construction of the SC's precise two dimensional map of auditory space.
K Harting
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Department of Anatomy, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 53706, Madison, WI, USA. jharting@facstaff.wisc.edu
Van Lieshout
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D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D007245:Inferior Colliculi / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology; D013477:Superior Colliculi / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology