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Vol.2, No.10, 1232-1237 (2010) Health doi:10.4236/health.2010.210183 Detection of the movement direction by the cells with directional receptive fields in the primary visual cortex of the cat 1 2 2 2 Ausra Daugirdiene *, Algimantas Svegzda , Romualdas Satinskas , Henrikas Vaitkevicius 1Department Psychology Didactics, Vilnius Pedagogical University, Vilnius, Lithuania; *Corresponding Author: ausra.daugirdiene@ 2Department of General Psychology Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania Received 24 July 2010; revised 2 August 2010; accepted 11 August 2010. ABSTRACT stage where DC cells are discovered in the cat’s visual system [1,2]. The DS cells respond preferentially to a The study was performed on neurons with dire- stimulus moving in a particular direction (preferably to ction selective (DS) receptive fields (RFs) in the these cells). DS cells of the primary visual cortex of the primary visual cortex of the cat. Preferred dire- cat do not have any direct projection from retina via the ctions (PDs) of these cells to a single light spot dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (LGNd) [3-5]. This and a system of two identical light spots moving suggests that DS is mainly generated within the primary across the RF with a given