Modeling the Emergence of Circuit Organization and Function during Development

S Lakhera, E Herbert… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Developing neural circuits show unique patterns of spontaneous activity and structured
network connectivity shaped by diverse activity-dependent plasticity mechanisms. Based on …

Rat superior colliculus encodes the transition between static and dynamic vision modes

R Gil, M Valente, N Shemesh - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
The visual continuity illusion involves a shift in visual perception from static to dynamic vision
modes when the stimuli arrive at high temporal frequency, and is critical for recognizing …

Retinal origin of orientation but not direction selective maps in the superior colliculus

D de Malmazet, NK Kühn, C Li, K Farrow - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Neurons in the mouse superior colliculus (" colliculus") are arranged in ordered spatial
maps. While orientation-selective (OS) neurons form a concentric map aligned to the center …

Development and organization of the retinal orientation selectivity map

DJ Vita, FS Orsi, NG Stanko, NA Clark… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Orientation or axial selectivity, the property of neurons in the visual system to respond
preferentially to certain angles of visual stimuli, plays a pivotal role in our understanding of …

Distinct cortical spatial representations learned along disparate visual pathways

Y Lian, PA LaChance, S Malmberg, ME Hasselmo… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Recent experimental studies have discovered diverse spatial properties, such as head
direction tuning and egocentric tuning, of neurons in the postrhinal cortex (POR) and …