Matt Jones, having pontificated about my "blathering" posts is correct
in his assessment of my lack of depth of knowledge in many of the fields
that relate to my own (behavioral studies of special groups).
However, he is incorrect in his assessment of the non-relationship
between the feline research and the simian research. The article.(as he
so directly pointed out, as not being the original study) refers clearly
to "One surprising observation made in EARLY experiments is that many
neurons in these visual pathways, both in V1 and in higher levels of the
processing hierarchy, still respond with their characteristic
selectivity to visual stimuli even in animals that have been completely
anesthetized"
Since the ARTICLE refers to monkey research, I will uncharacteristically
ASK Matt Jones to tell me the difference in these studies, other than
the methodology of using cats and the extraction of reproducible signals
from the data.
Yvonne Chatham
