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Fournier J, Müller CM, Schneider I, Laurent G. Spatial Information in a Non-retinotopic Visual Cortex. Neuron 2018; 97:164-180.e7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.11.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2017] [Revised: 08/25/2017] [Accepted: 11/10/2017] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Hoseini MS, Pobst J, Wright NC, Clawson W, Shew W, Wessel R. The turtle visual system mediates a complex spatiotemporal transformation of visual stimuli into cortical activity. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 2017; 204:167-181. [PMID: 29094198 DOI: 10.1007/s00359-017-1219-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2017] [Revised: 09/26/2017] [Accepted: 10/04/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The three-layered visual cortex of turtle is characterized by extensive intracortical axonal projections and receives non-retinotopic axonal projections from lateral geniculate nucleus. What spatiotemporal transformation of visual stimuli into cortical activity arises from such tangle of malleable cortical inputs and intracortical connections? To address this question, we obtained band-pass filtered extracellular recordings of neural activity in turtle dorsal cortex during visual stimulation of the retina. We discovered important spatial and temporal features of stimulus-modulated cortical local field potential (LFP) recordings. Spatial receptive fields span large areas of the visual field, have an intricate internal structure, and lack directional tuning. The receptive field structure varies across recording sites in a distant-dependent manner. Such composite spatial organization of stimulus-modulated cortical activity is accompanied by an equally multifaceted temporal organization. Cortical visual responses are delayed, persistent, and oscillatory. Further, prior cortical activity contributes globally to adaptation in turtle visual cortex. In conclusion, these results demonstrate convoluted spatiotemporal transformations of visual stimuli into stimulus-modulated cortical activity that, at present, largely evade computational frameworks.
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- Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA
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- Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
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Looking for the roots of cortical sensory computation in three-layered cortices. Curr Opin Neurobiol 2014; 31:119-26. [PMID: 25291080 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2014.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2014] [Revised: 09/15/2014] [Accepted: 09/15/2014] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Despite considerable effort over a century and the benefit of remarkable technical advances in the past few decades, we are still far from understanding mammalian cerebral neocortex. With its six layers, modular architecture, canonical circuits, innumerable cell types, and computational complexity, isocortex remains a challenging mystery. In this review, we argue that identifying the structural and functional similarities between mammalian piriform cortex and reptilian dorsal cortex could help reveal common organizational and computational principles and by extension, some of the most primordial computations carried out in cortical networks.
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Dynamic functional imaging experiments typically generate large, multivariate data sets that contain considerable spatial and temporal complexity. The goal of this introduction is to present signal-processing techniques that allow the underlying spatiotemporal structure to be readily distilled and that also enable signal versus noise contributions to be separated.
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MacLean JN, Fenstermaker V, Watson BO, Yuste R. A visual thalamocortical slice. Nat Methods 2006; 3:129-34. [PMID: 16432523 DOI: 10.1038/nmeth849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2005] [Accepted: 12/22/2005] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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We describe a thalamocortical slice preparation in which connectivity between the mouse lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) and primary visual cortex (V1) is preserved. Through DiI injections in fixed brains we traced and created a three-dimensional model of the mouse visual pathways. From this computer model we designed a slice preparation that contains a projection from LGN to V1. We prepared brain slices with these predicted coordinates and demonstrated anatomical LGN-V1 connectivity in these slices after LGN tracer injections. We also revealed functional LGN-V1 connectivity by stimulating LGN electrically and detecting responses in layer 4 of V1 using calcium imaging, field potential recordings and whole-cell recordings. We also identified layer-4 neurons that receive direct thalamocortical input. Finally, we compared cortical activity after LGN stimulation with spontaneous cortical activity and found significant overlap of the spatiotemporal dynamics generated by both types of events.
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- Jason N MacLean
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, 1212 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, New York 10027, USA.
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Robbins KA, Senseman DM. Extracting wave structure from biological data with application to responses in turtle visual cortex. J Comput Neurosci 2004; 16:267-98. [PMID: 15114050 DOI: 10.1023/b:jcns.0000025689.01581.26] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Waves have long been thought to be a fundamental mechanism for communicating information within a medium and are widely observed in biological systems. However, a quantitative analysis of biological waves is confounded by the variability and complexity of the response. This paper proposes a robust technique for extracting wave structure from experimental data by calculating "wave subspaces" from the KL decomposition of the data set. If a wave subspace contains a substantial portion of the data set energy during a particular time interval, one can deduce the structure of the wave and potentially isolate its information content. This paper uses the wave subspace technique to extract and compare wave structure in data from three different preparations of the turtle visual cortex. The paper demonstrates that wave subspace caricatures from the three cortical preparations have qualitative similarities. In the numerical model, where information about the underlying dynamics is available, wave subspace landmarks are related to activation and changes in behavior of other dynamic variables besides membrane potential.
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- Kay A Robbins
- Department of Computer Science and Cajal Neuroscience Research Institute, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 6900 N. Loop 1604 West, San Antonio, Texas 78249, USA.
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Nenadic Z, Ghosh BK, Ulinski P. Propagating waves in visual cortex: a large-scale model of turtle visual cortex. J Comput Neurosci 2003; 14:161-84. [PMID: 12567015 DOI: 10.1023/a:1021954701494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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This article describes a large-scale model of turtle visual cortex that simulates the propagating waves of activity seen in real turtle cortex. The cortex model contains 744 multicompartment models of pyramidal cells, stellate cells, and horizontal cells. Input is provided by an array of 201 geniculate neurons modeled as single compartments with spike-generating mechanisms and axons modeled as delay lines. Diffuse retinal flashes or presentation of spots of light to the retina are simulated by activating groups of geniculate neurons. The model is limited in that it does not have a retina to provide realistic input to the geniculate, and the cortex and does not incorporate all of the biophysical details of real cortical neurons. However, the model does reproduce the fundamental features of planar propagating waves. Activation of geniculate neurons produces a wave of activity that originates at the rostrolateral pole of the cortex at the point where a high density of geniculate afferents enter the cortex. Waves propagate across the cortex with velocities of 4 microm/ms to 70 microm/ms and occasionally reflect from the caudolateral border of the cortex.
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- Zoran Nenadic
- Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, Mail Stop 104-44, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
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Nenadic Z, Ghosh BK, Ulinski PS. Modeling and estimation problems in the turtle visual cortex. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2002; 49:753-62. [PMID: 12148813 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2002.800753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The goal of this paper is to verify that position and velocity of a spot of light incident on the retina of a turtle are encoded by the spatiotemporal dynamics of the cortical waves they generate. This conjecture is examined using a biophysically realistic large-scale computational model of the visual cortex implemented with the software package, GENESIS. The cortical waves are recorded and analyzed using principal components analysis and the position and velocity information from visual space is mapped onto an abstract B-space, to be described, using the coefficients of the principal components expansion. The likely values of the position/velocity are estimated using standard statistical detection methods.
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- Zoran Nenadic
- Department of Systems Science and Mathematics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA.
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Ermentrout GB, Kleinfeld D. Traveling electrical waves in cortex: insights from phase dynamics and speculation on a computational role. Neuron 2001; 29:33-44. [PMID: 11182079 DOI: 10.1016/s0896-6273(01)00178-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 268] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The theory of coupled phase oscillators provides a framework to understand the emergent properties of networks of neuronal oscillators. When the architecture of the network is dominated by short-range connections, the pattern of electrical output is predicted to correspond to traveling plane and rotating waves, in addition to synchronized output. We argue that this theory provides the foundation for understanding the traveling electrical waves that are observed across olfactory, visual, and visuomotor areas of cortex in a variety of species. The waves are typically present during periods outside of stimulation, while synchronous activity typically dominates in the presence of a strong stimulus. We suggest that the continuum of phase shifts during epochs with traveling waves provides a means to scan the incoming sensory stream for novel features. Experiments to test our theoretical approach are presented.
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- G B Ermentrout
- Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
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Prechtl JC, Bullock TH, Kleinfeld D. Direct evidence for local oscillatory current sources and intracortical phase gradients in turtle visual cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2000; 97:877-82. [PMID: 10639173 PMCID: PMC15424 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.2.877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Visual stimuli induce oscillations in the membrane potential of neurons in cortices of several species. In turtle, these oscillations take the form of linear and circular traveling waves. Such waves may be a consequence of a pacemaker that emits periodic pulses of excitation that propagate across a network of excitable neuronal tissue or may result from continuous and possibly reconfigurable phase shifts along a network with multiple weakly coupled neuronal oscillators. As a means to resolve the origin of wave propagation in turtle visual cortex, we performed simultaneous measurements of the local field potential at a series of depths throughout this cortex. Measurements along a single radial penetration revealed the presence of broadband current sources, with a center frequency near 20 Hz (gamma band), that were activated by visual stimulation. The spectral coherence between sources at two well-separated loci along a rostral-caudal axis revealed the presence of systematic timing differences between localized cortical oscillators. These multiple oscillating current sources and their timing differences in a tangential plane are interpreted as the neuronal activity that underlies the wave motion revealed in previous imaging studies. The present data provide direct evidence for the inference from imaging of bidirectional wave motion that the stimulus-induced electrical waves in turtle visual cortex correspond to phase shifts in a network of coupled neuronal oscillators.
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- J C Prechtl
- Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Prechtl JC, Cohen LB, Pesaran B, Mitra PP, Kleinfeld D. Visual stimuli induce waves of electrical activity in turtle cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1997; 94:7621-6. [PMID: 9207142 PMCID: PMC23872 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.14.7621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 178] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The computations involved in the processing of a visual scene invariably involve the interactions among neurons throughout all of visual cortex. One hypothesis is that the timing of neuronal activity, as well as the amplitude of activity, provides a means to encode features of objects. The experimental data from studies on cat [Gray, C. M., Konig, P., Engel, A. K. & Singer, W. (1989) Nature (London) 338, 334-337] support a view in which only synchronous (no phase lags) activity carries information about the visual scene. In contrast, theoretical studies suggest, on the one hand, the utility of multiple phases within a population of neurons as a means to encode independent visual features and, on the other hand, the likely existence of timing differences solely on the basis of network dynamics. Here we use widefield imaging in conjunction with voltage-sensitive dyes to record electrical activity from the virtually intact, unanesthetized turtle brain. Our data consist of single-trial measurements. We analyze our data in the frequency domain to isolate coherent events that lie in different frequency bands. Low frequency oscillations (<5 Hz) are seen in both ongoing activity and activity induced by visual stimuli. These oscillations propagate parallel to the afferent input. Higher frequency activity, with spectral peaks near 10 and 20 Hz, is seen solely in response to stimulation. This activity consists of plane waves and spiral-like waves, as well as more complex patterns. The plane waves have an average phase gradient of approximately pi/2 radians/mm and propagate orthogonally to the low frequency waves. Our results show that large-scale differences in neuronal timing are present and persistent during visual processing.
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- J C Prechtl
- Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02453, USA
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Cortical Circuitry Underlying Visual Motion Analysis in Turtles. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1991. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-84545-1_20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Mulligan KA, Ulinski PS. Organization of geniculocortical projections in turtles: isoazimuth lamellae in the visual cortex. J Comp Neurol 1990; 296:531-47. [PMID: 2358551 DOI: 10.1002/cne.902960403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The projection from the dorsal lateral geniculate complex to the visual cortex in Pseudemys and Chrysemys turtles was examined by using the anterograde transport of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) in vitro and the retrograde transport of HRP in vivo. In vitro HRP injections into the lateral forebrain bundle were used to fill geniculocortical axons anterogradely, which were then analyzed in cortical wholemount preparations. Geniculocortical axons gain access to the visual cortex along its entire rostral-caudal extent. They course in slightly curved trajectories for up to 2 mm from the lateral edge of the cortex through both the lateral (or pallial thickening) and medial parts of Desan's cortical area D2. Single axons are of fine caliber. They tend to cross each other and sometimes branch in the pallial thickening, but are generally unbranched in the medial part of D2. They bear small, fusiform varicosities at irregular intervals along their lengths. Although axons show small variations in the number of varicosities per 100 microns segment, no consistent variation in varicosity number as a function of distance could be detected. These results indicate that geniculocortical axons project to the visual cortex in an orderly pattern. The retrograde transport experiments provide some clue as to the significance of this pattern. Small, ionotophoretic injections of HRP in the visual cortex retrogradely labeled neurons in the dorsal lateral geniculate complex. Injections in the rostral visual cortex retrogradely labeled neurons in the caudal pole of the geniculate complex. Injections at progressively more caudal loci within the visual cortex labeled neurons at progressively more rostral loci within the geniculate complex. Thus, there is a representation of the rostral-caudal axis of the geniculate complex along the caudal-rostral axis of the visual cortex. Consistent with the anterograde transport experiments that showed individual geniculocortical axons coursing through both lateral and medial parts of the visual cortex, HRP injections restricted to the medial edge of the visual cortex retrogradely labeled neurons along the entire dorsal-ventral axis of the geniculate complex at the appropriate rostral-caudal position. The neurophysiological studies of Mazurskaya ('72: J. Evol. Biochem. Physiol. 8:550-555; respond to a small, moving stimulus anywhere in visual space, implying a convergence of inputs from all points in visual space somewhere along the retinogeniculocortical pathway. The experiments reported here suggest a convergence in the geniculocortical projections of information along the vertical meridians, or azimuth lines, of visual space onto neurons lying along lateral to medial transects through the visual cortex.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- K A Mulligan
- Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637
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