Morphophysiological correlates of evoked potentials in rabbit sensorimotor cortex during postnatal ontogenesis

Development of visually evoked responses and visually guided behavior in kittens: Effects of superior colliculus and lateral geniculate lesions

“…The notion of commitment seems eminently applicable to the differential recovery from SC and LGN lesions found in our study because the SC is both phylogenetically and ontogenetically older than the geniculostriate system. At the time the lesions in our experiments were made, synaptic connections of afferents assumed to be part of the specific thalarnocortical system were not yet well developed (Ata-Muradova & Chernyshevskaya, 1966;Purpura, 1961;Scheibel & Scheibel, 1964. In the absence of afferents from the LCN, which presumably would normally form these synapses, a reorganization of neural elements subserving various visual functions during the course of development in the very young animal might occur involving the SC and/or its indirect cortical projections, so that this phylogenetically older system could mediate some of the visual behaviors usually attributed to the geniculostriate system.…”

Rabbit eyelid conditioning: Effects of age, interstimulus interval, and intertrial interval

“…rabbits eyelid conditioning classical conditioning interstimulus interval CS-US interval N THE PRESENT STUDY, the rabbit eyelid response was I used in a developmental investigation of Pavlovian conditioning. Ata-Muradova and Chernyshevskaya (1966) analyzed the general pattern of the cytoarchitectonic differentiation of the sensorimotor cortex in rabbits from 1 to 30 days of age. Their analysis indicated that different portions of the rabbit cortex develop asynchronously, with dendritic arborization in the cortical receiving areas of the specific thalamic system developing much more slowly than cortical areas associated with the nonspecific afferent system.…”