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Responses of 251 neurons in the anterior part of the middle suprasylvian gyrus to stimulation of primary sensory (auditory, visual, somatosensory) areas and also to acoustic, visual, and somatosensory stimuli were studied in acute experiments on cats anesthetized with chloralose (40 mg/kg) and pentobarbital (20 mg/kg). Three groups of neurons were distinguished by their responses to stimulation of the primary sensory areas: those responding by an increased firing rate (117) or by inhibition (35) and those not responding (99). Responses of 193 neurons to stimulation of the peripheral afferent systems were analyzed. Neurons of the parietal associative cortex responded more frequently to cortical stimulation than to peripheral. By the duration of the latent period of their response to cortical stimulation the neurons were divided into three groups: those with short (less than 20 msec), medium (20–30 msec), and long latent periods (over 30 msec). The first group was the largest.
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Kemerovo State Medical Institute. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 4, No. 5, pp. 524–530, September–October, 1972.
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Kazakov, V.N., Izmest'ev, V.A. Responses of parietal associative neurons to stimulation of primary sensory areas. Neurophysiology 4, 404–408 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01063012
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01063012