A Cross-species Comparison of Corticogeniculate Structure and Function

Overview

Journal Vis Neurosci

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Specialties Neurology
Ophthalmology

Date 2018 Jul 24

PMID 30034107

Citations 11

Authors

J Michael Hasse

Farran Briggs

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Abstract

The corticogeniculate circuit is an evolutionarily conserved pathway linking the primary visual cortex with the visual thalamus in the feedback direction. While the corticogeniculate circuit is anatomically robust, the impact of corticogeniculate feedback on the visual response properties of visual thalamic neurons is subtle. Accordingly, discovering the function of corticogeniculate feedback in vision has been a particularly challenging task. In this review, the morphology, organization, physiology, and function of corticogeniculate feedback is compared across mammals commonly studied in visual neuroscience: primates, carnivores, rabbits, and rodents. Common structural and organizational motifs are present across species, including the organization of corticogeniculate feedback into parallel processing streams in highly visual mammals.

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