Lecture 27 Visual System 2 Physiology (orig Ablation Effects); Neville Sanjana, Guest lecturer
NEVILLE SANJANA: So Jerry started the ablation studies of the visual system, and the reason why I'm not picking up where he left off is because Jerry is really the specialist in this. In fact, you'll see in our textbook that his work is cited, his 1969 paper is cited for some of the ablation that he did to the superior colliculus. It's classic work, so he really is the one to talk about that. Not only that, I don't do lesion studies, so another good reason for me not to. So I am like a physiologist, and I work mainly in the hippocampus, but hopefully that will transfer to the retina nicely for today. So this is today's topic, and Jerry had this kind of very large outline with lots of slides, so we're probably only going to talk about the retina, and maybe get to talk about the different cell types, the ganglion cell types, and I don't if everybody has done the reading or whatnot, but I'll try and introduce you, just starting with the eye, a...