Binocular interaction on monocularly discharged lateral geniculate and striate neurons in the cat.

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Abstract
Of 112 quantitatively studied orientation-sensitive cells recorded in the striate cortex of 10 anesthetized and paralyzed cats, 16 monocular cells were encountered that were discharged from 1 eye only (dominant eye) and not at all from the other eye (silent eye). Of the 16 monocular cells, 15 showed clear-cut binocular effects from the silent eye. In the concept of ocular dominance columns in the striate cortex virtually all the cells are either binocularly discharged or strongly binocularly influenced. Even cells in parts of the columns apparently dominanted completely by 1 eye must also have an input from the other eye that may be either excitatory, inhibitory, or a combination of the 2 effects.