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Ohmori H, Hirai Y, Matsui R, Watanabe D. High resolution recording of local field currents simultaneously with sound-evoked calcium signals by a photometric patch electrode in the auditory cortex field L of the chick. J Neurosci Methods 2023; 392:109863. [PMID: 37075913 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2023.109863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2022] [Revised: 03/06/2023] [Accepted: 04/15/2023] [Indexed: 04/21/2023]
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BACKGROUND Functioning of the brain is based on both electrical and metabolic activity of neural ensembles. Accordingly, it would be useful to measure intracellular metabolic signaling simultaneously with electrical activity in the brain in vivo. NEW METHOD We innovated a PhotoMetric-patch-Electrode (PME) recording system that has a high temporal resolution incorporating a photomultiplier tube as a light detector. The PME is fabricated from a quartz glass capillary to transmit light as a light guide, and it can detect electrical signals as a patch electrode simultaneously with a fluorescence signal. RESULTS We measured the sound-evoked Local Field Current (LFC) and fluorescence Ca2+ signal from neurons labeled with Ca2+-sensitive dye Oregon Green BAPTA1 in field L, the avian auditory cortex. Sound stimulation evoked multi-unit spike bursts and Ca2+ signals, and enhanced the fluctuation of LFC. After a brief sound stimulation, the cross-correlation between LFC and Ca2+ signal was prolonged. D-AP5 (antagonist for NMDA receptors) suppressed the sound-evoked Ca2+ signal when applied locally by pressure from the tip of PME. COMPARISON WITH EXISTING METHODS In contrast to existing multiphoton imaging or optical fiber recording methods, the PME is a patch electrode pulled simply from a quartz glass capillary and can measure fluorescence signals at the tip simultaneously with electrical signal at any depth of the brain structure. CONCLUSION The PME is devised to record electrical and optical signals simultaneously with high temporal resolution. Moreover, it can inject chemical agents dissolved in the tip-filling medium locally by pressure, allowing manipulation of neural activity pharmacologically.
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- Harunori Ohmori
- Department of Physiology & Neurobiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
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- Department of Physiology & Neurobiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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Khodaei F, Sadati SH, Doost M, Lashgari R. LFP polarity changes across cortical and eccentricity in primary visual cortex. Front Neurosci 2023; 17:1138602. [PMID: 36922925 PMCID: PMC10008888 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1138602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2023] [Accepted: 02/08/2023] [Indexed: 03/01/2023] Open
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Local field potentials (LFPs) can evaluate neural population activity in the cortex and their interaction with other cortical areas. Analyzing current source density (CSD) rather than LFPs is very significant due to the reduction of volume conduction effects. Current sinks are construed as net inward transmembrane currents, while current sources are net outward ones. Despite extensive studies of LFPs and CSDs, their morphology in different cortical layers and eccentricities are still largely unknown. Because LFP polarity changes provide a measure of neural activity, they can be useful in implanting brain-computer interface (BCI) chips and effectively communicating the BCI devices to the brain. We hypothesize that sinks and sources analyses could be a way to quantitatively achieve their characteristics in response to changes in stimulus size and layer-dependent differences with increasing eccentricities. In this study, we show that stimulus properties play a crucial role in determining the flow. The present work focusses on the primary visual cortex (V1). In this study, we investigate a map of the LFP-CSD in V1 area by presenting different stimulus properties (e.g., size and type) in the visual field area of Macaque monkeys. Our aim is to use the morphology of sinks and sources to measure the input and output information in different layers as well as different eccentricities. According to the value of CSDs, the results show that the stimuli smaller than RF's size had lower strength than the others and the larger RF's stimulus size showed smaller strength than the optimized stimulus size, which indicated the suppression phenomenon. Additionally, with the increased eccentricity, CSD's strengths were increased across cortical layers.
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- Fereshteh Khodaei
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.,Institute of Medical Science and Technology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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- Institute of Medical Science and Technology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
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- Institute of Medical Science and Technology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
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Kuokkanen PT, Ashida G, Kraemer A, McColgan T, Funabiki K, Wagner H, Köppl C, Carr CE, Kempter R. Contribution of action potentials to the extracellular field potential in the nucleus laminaris of barn owl. J Neurophysiol 2017; 119:1422-1436. [PMID: 29357463 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00175.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Extracellular field potentials (EFP) are widely used to evaluate in vivo neural activity, but identification of multiple sources and their relative contributions is often ambiguous, making the interpretation of the EFP difficult. We have therefore analyzed a model EFP from a simple brainstem circuit with separable pre- and postsynaptic components to determine whether we could isolate its sources. Our previous papers had shown that the barn owl neurophonic largely originates with spikes from input axons and synapses that terminate on the neurons in the nucleus laminaris (NL) (Kuokkanen PT, Wagner H, Ashida G, Carr CE, Kempter R. J Neurophysiol 104: 2274-2290, 2010; Kuokkanen PT, Ashida G, Carr CE, Wagner H, Kempter R. J Neurophysiol 110: 117-130, 2013; McColgan T, Liu J, Kuokkanen PT, Carr CE, Wagner H, Kempter R. eLife 6: e26106, 2017). To determine how much the postsynaptic NL neurons contributed to the neurophonic, we recorded EFP responses in NL in vivo. Power spectral analyses showed that a small spectral component of the evoked response, between 200 and 700 Hz, could be attributed to the NL neurons' spikes, while nucleus magnocellularis (NM) spikes dominate the EFP at frequencies ≳1 kHz. Thus, spikes of NL neurons and NM axons contribute to the EFP in NL in distinct frequency bands. We conclude that if the spectral components of source types are different and if their activities can be selectively modulated, the identification of EFP sources is possible. NEW & NOTEWORTHY Extracellular field potentials (EFPs) generate clinically important signals, but their sources are incompletely understood. As a model, we have analyzed the auditory neurophonic in the barn owl's nucleus laminaris. There the EFP originates predominantly from spiking in the afferent axons, with spectral power ≳1 kHz, while postsynaptic laminaris neurons contribute little. In conclusion, the identification of EFP sources is possible if they have different spectral components and if their activities can be modulated selectively.
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- Paula T Kuokkanen
- Institute for Theoretical Biology, Department of Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Department of Biology, University of Maryland , College Park, Maryland
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- Cluster of Excellence "Hearing4all," Research Center Neurosensory Science, and Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg , Oldenburg , Germany
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- Department of Biology, University of Maryland , College Park, Maryland
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- Institute for Theoretical Biology, Department of Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Biomedical Research and Innovation , Kobe , Japan
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- Institute for Biology II, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen, Aachen , Germany
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- Cluster of Excellence "Hearing4all," Research Center Neurosensory Science, and Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg , Oldenburg , Germany
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- Department of Biology, University of Maryland , College Park, Maryland
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- Institute for Theoretical Biology, Department of Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany.,Einstein Center for Neurosciences, Berlin, Germany
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Lebedev MA, Nicolelis MAL. Brain-Machine Interfaces: From Basic Science to Neuroprostheses and Neurorehabilitation. Physiol Rev 2017; 97:767-837. [PMID: 28275048 DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00027.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 235] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) combine methods, approaches, and concepts derived from neurophysiology, computer science, and engineering in an effort to establish real-time bidirectional links between living brains and artificial actuators. Although theoretical propositions and some proof of concept experiments on directly linking the brains with machines date back to the early 1960s, BMI research only took off in earnest at the end of the 1990s, when this approach became intimately linked to new neurophysiological methods for sampling large-scale brain activity. The classic goals of BMIs are 1) to unveil and utilize principles of operation and plastic properties of the distributed and dynamic circuits of the brain and 2) to create new therapies to restore mobility and sensations to severely disabled patients. Over the past decade, a wide range of BMI applications have emerged, which considerably expanded these original goals. BMI studies have shown neural control over the movements of robotic and virtual actuators that enact both upper and lower limb functions. Furthermore, BMIs have also incorporated ways to deliver sensory feedback, generated from external actuators, back to the brain. BMI research has been at the forefront of many neurophysiological discoveries, including the demonstration that, through continuous use, artificial tools can be assimilated by the primate brain's body schema. Work on BMIs has also led to the introduction of novel neurorehabilitation strategies. As a result of these efforts, long-term continuous BMI use has been recently implicated with the induction of partial neurological recovery in spinal cord injury patients.
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Hagen E, Dahmen D, Stavrinou ML, Lindén H, Tetzlaff T, van Albada SJ, Grün S, Diesmann M, Einevoll GT. Hybrid Scheme for Modeling Local Field Potentials from Point-Neuron Networks. Cereb Cortex 2016; 26:4461-4496. [PMID: 27797828 PMCID: PMC6193674 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhw237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2016] [Revised: 05/31/2016] [Accepted: 07/12/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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With rapidly advancing multi-electrode recording technology, the local field potential (LFP) has again become a popular measure of neuronal activity in both research and clinical applications. Proper understanding of the LFP requires detailed mathematical modeling incorporating the anatomical and electrophysiological features of neurons near the recording electrode, as well as synaptic inputs from the entire network. Here we propose a hybrid modeling scheme combining efficient point-neuron network models with biophysical principles underlying LFP generation by real neurons. The LFP predictions rely on populations of network-equivalent multicompartment neuron models with layer-specific synaptic connectivity, can be used with an arbitrary number of point-neuron network populations, and allows for a full separation of simulated network dynamics and LFPs. We apply the scheme to a full-scale cortical network model for a ∼1 mm2 patch of primary visual cortex, predict laminar LFPs for different network states, assess the relative LFP contribution from different laminar populations, and investigate effects of input correlations and neuron density on the LFP. The generic nature of the hybrid scheme and its public implementation in hybridLFPy form the basis for LFP predictions from other and larger point-neuron network models, as well as extensions of the current application with additional biological detail.
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- Espen Hagen
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA BRAIN Institute I, Jülich Research Centre, 52425 Jülich, Germany.,Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1430 Ås, Norway
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA BRAIN Institute I, Jülich Research Centre, 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1430 Ås, Norway.,Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, 0373 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Computational Biology, School of Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA BRAIN Institute I, Jülich Research Centre, 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA BRAIN Institute I, Jülich Research Centre, 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA BRAIN Institute I, Jülich Research Centre, 52425 Jülich, Germany.,Theoretical Systems Neurobiology, RWTH Aachen University, 52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA BRAIN Institute I, Jülich Research Centre, 52425 Jülich, Germany.,Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, Germany.,Department of Physics, Faculty 1, RWTH Aachen University, 52062 Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1430 Ås, Norway.,Department of Physics, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway
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LFP-guided targeting of a cortical barrel column for in vivo two-photon calcium imaging. Sci Rep 2015; 5:15905. [PMID: 26511063 PMCID: PMC4625133 DOI: 10.1038/srep15905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2015] [Accepted: 10/06/2015] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Two-photon microscopy of bulk-loaded functional dyes is an outstanding physiological technique that enables simultaneous functional mapping of hundreds of brain cells in vivo at single-cell resolution. However, precise targeting of a specific cortical location is not easy due to its fine dimensionality. To enable precise targeting, intrinsic-signal optical imaging is often additionally performed. However, the intrinsic-signal optical imaging is not only time-consuming but also ineffective in ensuring precision. Here, we propose an alternative method for precise targeting based on local field potential (LFP) recording, a conventional electrophysiological method. The heart of this method lies in use of the same glass pipette to record LFPs and to eject calcium dye. After confirming the target area by LFP using a glass pipette, the calcium dye is ejected from the same pipette without a time delay or spatial adjustment. As a result, the calcium dye is loaded into the same ensemble of brain cells from which the LFP was obtained. As a validation of the proposed LFP-based method, we targeted and successfully loaded calcium dye into layer 2/3 of a mouse barrel column.
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Quantitative basis for neuroimaging of cortical laminae with calibrated functional MRI. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013; 110:15115-20. [PMID: 23980158 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1307154110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Layer-specific neurophysiologic, hemodynamic, and metabolic measurements are needed to interpret high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data in the cerebral cortex. We examined how neurovascular and neurometabolic couplings vary vertically in the rat's somatosensory cortex. During sensory stimulation we measured dynamic layer-specific responses of local field potential (LFP) and multiunit activity (MUA) as well as blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) signal and cerebral blood volume (CBV) and blood flow (CBF), which in turn were used to calculate changes in oxidative metabolism (CMR(O2)) with calibrated fMRI. Both BOLD signal and CBV decreased from superficial to deep laminae, but these responses were not well correlated with either layer-specific LFP or MUA. However, CBF changes were quite stable across laminae, similar to LFP. However, changes in CMR(O2) and MUA varied across cortex in a correlated manner and both were reduced in superficial lamina. These results lay the framework for quantitative neuroimaging across cortical laminae with calibrated fMRI methods.
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Bolding MS, Reid MA, Avsar KB, Roberts RC, Gamlin PD, Gawne TJ, White DM, den Hollander JA, Lahti AC. Magnetic transfer contrast accurately localizes substantia nigra confirmed by histology. Biol Psychiatry 2013; 73:289-94. [PMID: 22981657 PMCID: PMC3534824 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.07.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2011] [Revised: 06/13/2012] [Accepted: 07/30/2012] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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BACKGROUND Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has multiple contrast mechanisms. Like various staining techniques in histology, each contrast type reveals different information about the structure of the brain. However, it is not always clear how structures visible in MRI correspond to structures previously identified by histology. The purpose of this study was to determine if magnetic transfer contrast (MTC) or T2 contrast MRI was better at delineating the substantia nigra (SN). METHODS MRI scans were acquired in vivo from two nonhuman primates (NHPs). The NHPs were subsequently euthanized, perfused, and their brains sectioned for histologic analyses. Each slice was photographed before sectioning. Each brain was sectioned into approximately 500 sections, 40 μm each, encompassing most of the cortex, midbrain, and dorsal parts of the hindbrain. Levels corresponding to anatomic MRI images were selected. From these, adjacent sections were stained using Kluver-Barrera (myelin and cell bodies) or tyrosine hydroxylase (dopaminergic neurons) immunohistochemistry. The resulting images were coregistered to the block-face images using a moving least squares algorithm with similarity transformations. MR images were similarly coregistered to the block-face images, allowing the structures on MRI to be identified with structures on the histologic images. RESULTS We found that hyperintense (light) areas in MTC images were coextensive with the SN as delineated histologically. The hypointense (dark) areas in T2-weighted images were not coextensive with the SN but extended partially into the SN and partially into the cerebral peduncles. CONCLUSIONS MTC is more accurate than T2-weighting for localizing the SN in vivo.
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- Vision Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
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- Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, UAB
,Corresponding author. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, SC 501, 1530 3rd Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35294-0017, United States. Tel.: +1 205 996 6776; fax: +1 205 975 4879.
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Attention influences single unit and local field potential response latencies in visual cortical area V4. J Neurosci 2013; 32:16040-50. [PMID: 23136440 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0489-12.2012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Many previous studies have demonstrated that changes in selective attention can alter the response magnitude of visual cortical neurons, but there has been little evidence for attention affecting response latency. Small latency differences, though hard to detect, can potentially be of functional importance, and may also give insight into the mechanisms of neuronal computation. We therefore reexamined the effect of attention on the response latency of both single units and the local field potential (LFP) in primate visual cortical area V4. We find that attention does produce small (1-2 ms) but significant reductions in the latency of both the spiking and LFP responses. Though attention, like contrast elevation, reduces response latencies, we find that the two have different effects on the magnitude of the LFP. Contrast elevations increase and attention decreases the magnitude of the initial deflection of the stimulus-evoked LFP. Both contrast elevation and attention increase the magnitude of the spiking response. We speculate that latencies may be reduced at higher contrast because stronger stimulus inputs drive neurons more rapidly to spiking threshold, while attention may reduce latencies by placing neurons in a more depolarized state closer to threshold before stimulus onset.
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Klink PC, Oleksiak A, Lankheet MJM, van Wezel RJA. Intermittent stimulus presentation stabilizes neuronal responses in macaque area MT. J Neurophysiol 2012; 108:2101-14. [PMID: 22832573 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00252.2012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Repeated stimulation impacts neuronal responses. Here we show how response characteristics of sensory neurons in macaque visual cortex are influenced by the duration of the interruptions during intermittent stimulus presentation. Besides effects on response magnitude consistent with neuronal adaptation, the response variability was also systematically influenced. Spike rate variability in motion-sensitive area MT decreased when interruption durations were systematically increased from 250 to 2,000 ms. Activity fluctuations between subsequent trials and Fano factors over full response sequences were both lower with longer interruptions, while spike timing patterns became more regular. These variability changes partially depended on the response magnitude, but another significant effect that was uncorrelated with adaptation-induced changes in response magnitude was also present. Reduced response variability was furthermore accompanied by changes in spike-field coherence, pointing to the possibility that reduced spiking variability results from interactions in the local cortical network. While neuronal response stabilization may be a general effect of repeated sensory stimulation, we discuss its potential link with the phenomenon of perceptual stabilization of ambiguous stimuli as a result of interrupted presentation.
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- P Christiaan Klink
- Functional Neurobiology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Gawne TJ. Short-time scale dynamics in the responses to multiple stimuli in visual cortex. Front Psychol 2011; 2:323. [PMID: 22073039 PMCID: PMC3210489 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2011] [Accepted: 10/21/2011] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Many previous studies have used the presentation of multiple stimuli in the receptive fields (RFs) of visual cortical neurons to explore how neurons might operate on multiple inputs. Most of these experiments have used two fixed stimulus locations within the RF of each neuron. Here the effects of using different positions within the RF of a neuron were explored. The stimuli were presented singly at one of six locations, and also at 15 pair-wise combinations, for 24 V2 cortical neurons in two macaque monkeys. There was considerable variability in how pairs of stimuli interacted within the receptive field of any given neuron: changing the position of the stimuli could result in enhancement, winner-take-all, or suppression relative to the strongest response to a stimulus presented by itself. Across the population of neurons there was no correlation between response strength and response latency. However, for many stimulus pairs the response latency was tightly locked to the shortest response latency of any single stimulus presented by itself independent of changes in response magnitude. In other words, a stimulus that by itself elicited a relatively long latency response, would often affect the magnitude of the response to a pair of stimuli, but not change the latency. These results may provide constraints on the development of models of cortical information processing.
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- Timothy J Gawne
- Department of Vision Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL, USA
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Bollimunta A, Ditterich J. Local computation of decision-relevant net sensory evidence in parietal cortex. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011; 22:903-17. [PMID: 21709177 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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To investigate the contribution of parietal cortex to perceptual decisions, we trained monkeys on a perceptual decision task that allowed simultaneous experimental control over how much sensory evidence was provided for each of 3 possible alternative choices and recorded single unit activity and local field potentials (LFPs) from the lateral intraparietal area (LIP). While both the behavior and the spiking activity were largely determined by the difference between how much supporting sensory evidence was provided for a particular choice (pro evidence) and how much sensory evidence was provided for the other alternatives (anti evidence), the LFP reflected roughly the sum of these 2 components. Furthermore, the firing rates showed an earlier influence of the anti evidence than the pro evidence. These observations indicate that LIP does not simply receive already precomputed decision signals but that it plays an active role in computing the decision-relevant net sensory evidence and that this local computation is reflected in the LFP. The results further demonstrate that the competition between the different alternatives cannot solely be mediated by lateral or feedback inhibition, as proposed by a major class of decision models but that feedforward inhibition makes an important contribution.
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- Anil Bollimunta
- Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, CA 95618, USA
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Robust sensory gating in the cortical visual evoked potential using two spatially separated stimuli. Clin Neurophysiol 2010; 122:588-593. [PMID: 20709595 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.07.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2009] [Revised: 07/02/2010] [Accepted: 07/21/2010] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Sensory gating has been reported to be either absent or weak in the cortical visual evoked potential (VEP) response to diffuse or spatially overlapping stimuli. In this study, the authors evaluated sensory gating to two spatially separated visual stimuli. METHODS Spatially separated stimuli were presented either singly or in combination at the same or different onset times and the VEP recorded at either Oz, or O1 and O2, referenced to Cz. RESULTS When one visual stimulus is flashed on, the VEP response to another non-overlapping stimulus is almost completely suppressed. CONCLUSIONS The VEP does not reflect the bulk activation of retinotopically organized visual cortex, but rather it primarily reflects a distributed mode of visual cortical activity that only indicates that at least one visual stimulus was presented, and not how many or in what order. SIGNIFICANCE Other studies performing intracortical recordings of the local field potential (LFP) in visual cortex have identified a slow-distributed component that exhibits the same nonlinearity found here in the VEP, suggesting that these two phenomena are related.
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