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We have studied the suppression of firing in single LGN cells of cat and monkey in response to visual stimulation of the nondominant eye.
In the cat LGN most of the cells of each of the main laminae show this nondominat suppression. X cells having their dominant input from the ipsilateral eye were suppressed to a significantly greater degree than any other cell type in the cat LGN.
In the monkey LGN nondominant suppression was absent in all 19 X-like cells studied, whereas 6 of 21 Y-like cells showed nondominant suppression. Thus nondominant suppression is present in the magnocellular laminae of the monkey LGN, where the Y-like cells are found, but appears to be absent from the parvocellular laminae, where the X-like cells are found.
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Rodieck, R.W., Dreher, B. Visual suppression from nondominant eye in the lateral geniculate nucleus: A comparison of cat and monkey. Exp Brain Res 35, 465–477 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00236765
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