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After the injection of
deoxyglucose, the visual fields
of the anesthetized monkey
were stimulated with slowly
moving vertical black and
white stripes. The resulting
autoradiograph shows dense
periodic labeling, for example
in layers 5 and 6 (large central
elongated area). The dark gray
narrow ring outside this, layer
4Cß, is uniformly labeled, as
expected, because the cells are
not orientation selective.
The pattern we obtained, as
shown in the autoradiograph to
the left, was far more complex
than that of ocular-dominance
columns. Nevertheless the
periodicity was clear, with 1
millimeter or less from one
dense region to the next, as
would be expected from the
physiology--the distance an
electrode has to move to go from
a given orientation, such as
vertical, through all
intermediates and back to
vertical. Some places showed
stripelike regularity extending
for several square millimeters.
We had wondered whether the
orientation slabs and the
ocular-dominance stripes
might in any way be related in
their geometry--for example, be
parallel or intersect at 90
degrees. In the same
experiment, we were able to
reveal the ocular-dominance
columns by injecting the eye
with a radioactive amino acid
and to look at the same block of
tissue by the two methods, as
shown in the second
autoradiograph to the left.