The visual conducting pathways of higher mammals consist of three main channels: X, Y, and W in carnivores and the magno-, parvo-, and koniocellular pathways in primates; neurons in these channels differ in terms of body area, extent of dendrite branching, and axon thickness, which determine the characteristic properties of their receptive fields. The structural-functional organization of the first two channels – X/parvo and Y/magno – have been analyzed in many experimental and theoretical studies, and have been addressed in informative reviews and monographs; the characteristics of the organization of the third (W/konio) conducting channel have long attracted much less attention, and its large-scale study has only started relatively recently. The aim of the present work was to undertake a comparative analysis of existing data on the structure and functions of the third conducting channel in a number of mammals of the orders Carnivora and Primates.
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Merkulyeva, N.S. Conducting Channels in the Visual System. The Third Channel. Neurosci Behav Physi 52, 886–898 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-022-01313-4
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