Greetings.
Could anyone give me pointers to any recent results which either support or
disprove the existence of excitatory and/or inhibitory lateral interactions
(direct or indirect) between {\em simple} cells in primate or cat visual cortex.
Cross-correlation of simultaneous recordings from simple cells or similarly
specific evidence would be preferred, although I am interested in anything of
relevance to the topic, including the neuroanatomical foundation of such
interactions (if they exist).
I am familiar with the following work (including psychophysical and
electrophysiological results) in this area:
@article{Ramoa,
title="A Comparison of Inhibition in Orientation and Spatial Frequency
Selectivity of Cat Visual Cortex",
author="Ramoa, A.S. and Shadlen, M. and Skottun, B.C. and Freeman,
R.D.",
journal="Nature",
volume=321,
pages="237-239",
year=1986}
Note: Ramoa et al. used cross-correlation of recordings from
orientation-selective cells in layer IV, but did not positively identify the
cells as simple cells.
@article{DeValois83,
title="Spatial-Frequency-Specific Inhibition in Cat Striate Cortex Cells",
author="De~Valois, Karen K. and Tootell, Roger B.H.",
journal=JP,
volume=336, year=1983, pages="359-376"}
@article{Maffei76,
title="The Unresponsive Regions of Visual Cortical Receptive Fields",
author="Maffei, L. and Fiorentini, A.",
journal=VR,
volume=16, pages="1131-39",
year=1976}
@article{Fries77,
title="Effects of Interacting Visual Paterns On Single Cell Responses in Cat's Striate Cortex",
author="Fries, W. and Albus, K. and Creutzfeldt, O. D.",
journal=VR, volume=17, pages="1001-8",
year=1977}
@article{Nelson78,
title="Orientation Selective Inhibition From Beyond The Classic Visual Receptive Field",
author="Nelson, J. I. and Frost, B",
journal="Brain Res.",
volume=139, pages="359-65", year=1978}
I would be happy to summarise any responses to the network.
Thanks for your indulgence.
--
Tim Pattison
Dept of Electrical and Electronic Eng.
University of Adelaide