Abstract
The spontaneous discharges which recorded extracellularly from cells in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of a cat were classified into the following 3 main groups depending upon the shapes of their interval histograms and autocorrelation functions: the gamma type whose interval histogram is fitted by a gamma distribution function and whose autocorrelation function has some periodic property which damps down within about several 10 ms, the burst type whose interval histogram has a peak in the first bin (less than 8 ms) and whose autocorrelation function has a large positive peak within several msec, and the multimodal type whose interval histogram has a complex shape with three or more peaks and whose autocorrelation function has a periodic property. Each type of spontaneous discharge seems to be inherent at scotopic and mesopic backgrounds, and the cells whose spontaneous discharges are the gamma type, the burst type, and the multimodal type are called here a gamma cell, burst cell, and the multimodal cell, respectively. Gamma cells are subdivided into X- and Y-cells (gamma-X and gamma-Y cells), but burst cells are all Y-cells and multimodal cells observed up to now are all X-cells. It is clear that these various types of cells are distributed significantly differently in each lamina. All the cells that we found up to now in lamina A were either burst cells or multimodal cells, but every type of cell was found in lamina A 1. The majority of cells in lamina C were the gamma type.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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