“…The dorsolateral aspect of the caudate body in the cat can receive its visual afferentation from the tectum via the suprageniculate nucleus of the thalamus (Harting, et al, 2001;Nagy, et al, 2003;Rokszin, et al, 2011) Recently, a direct projection from the visual association cortex to the caudate nucleus in the feline brain has also been described (Nagy, et al, 2011). The visual inputs of the substantia nigra may originate from the caudate nucleus (Rodríguez, et al, 2000) and from direct (Comoli, et al, 2003) or indirect tectal pathways through the subthalamic nucleus (Kita & Kitai, 1987;Tokuno, et al, 1994;Jiang, et al, 2003) and the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus (Redgrave, et al, 1987;Lokwan, et al, 1999). The sensory and multisensory receptive field organization of single neurons that we found in these two structures may lend further support to the concept of a tectal, extrageniculate pathway conveying multisensory information to the caudate nucleus and the substantia nigra pars reticulata (Nagy, et al, 2005a;Nagy, et al, 2006).…”