Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(31171082);Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province(070413138);the Key Research Foundation of Anhui Province Education Department(KJ2009A167)
Psychophysical experiments on human and animal subjects have proven that aged individuals show significantly reduced visual contrast sensitivity compared with young adults.To uncover the possible neural mechanisms,we ...
Supported by Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province (070413138);the Key Research Foundation of Anhui Province Education Department (KJ2009A167)
Previous studies have shown that visual cortical neurons in old mammals exhibit higher spontaneous activity,higher responsiveness to visual stimuli,and lower selectivity for stimulus orientations and motion directions...
supported by Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province(No. 070413138);the Key Research Foundation of Education Department of Anhui Province,China(No. KJ2009A167)
Objective To examine whether the selectivity of visual cortical neurons to stimulus spatial frequencies would be affected by aging in cats.Methods In vivo extracellular single-unit recording techniques were employed t...