| Abstract: | We investigated the visual-cortex neurons of the conscious rabbit during simultaneous stimulation with a clicking sound and a light flash (complex) and during separate application of these stimuli. We tested the development of the reflex with time and of the sound-light association during prolonged rhythmic application of the sound and light. Fifty visual-cortex neurons were studied; 20% of the cells responded with a specific phased reaction and 16% exhibited a specific response to the complex different from the responses to each of its components. Development of a sound-light association was observed in 18% of the cells and a temporal reflex was induced in 25%. In most cases, the conditioned reaction evoked was similar to some informational element in the neuronal response to the complex.M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. Institute of Cybernetics, Academy of Sciences of the GruzSSR. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 391–398, July–August, 1970. |
