[HTML][HTML] In vivo two-photon imaging reveals a role of arc in enhancing orientation specificity in visual cortex

KH Wang, A Majewska, J Schummers, B Farley, C Hu… - Cell, 2006 - cell.com
Cortical representations of visual information are modified by an animal's visual experience.
To investigate the mechanisms in mice, we replaced the coding part of the neural activity …

Loss of Arc renders the visual cortex impervious to the effects of sensory experience or deprivation

CL McCurry, JD Shepherd, D Tropea, KH Wang… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
A myriad of mechanisms have been suggested to account for the full richness of visual
cortical plasticity. We found that visual cortex lacking Arc is impervious to the effects of …

[HTML][HTML] Feature-selective responses in macaque visual cortex follow eye movements during natural vision

W Xiao, S Sharma, G Kreiman, MS Livingstone - Nature neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
In natural vision, primates actively move their eyes several times per second via saccades. It
remains unclear whether, during this active looking, visual neurons exhibit classical …

Stream-dependent development of higher visual cortical areas

IT Smith, LB Townsend, R Huh, H Zhu, SL Smith - Nature neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Multiple cortical areas contribute to visual processing in mice. However, the functional
organization and development of higher visual areas are unclear. Here we used intrinsic …

A specific requirement of Arc/Arg3. 1 for visual experience-induced homeostatic synaptic plasticity in mouse primary visual cortex

M Gao, K Sossa, L Song, L Errington… - Journal of …, 2010 - Soc Neuroscience
Visual experience scales down excitatory synapses in the superficial layers of visual cortex
in a process that provides an in vivo paradigm of homeostatic synaptic scaling. Experience …

Dynamics of neuronal sensitivity in visual cortex and local feature discrimination

V Dragoi, J Sharma, EK Miller, M Sur - Nature neuroscience, 2002 - nature.com
A striking aspect of natural scenes is that image features such as line orientation are strongly
correlated at neighboring spatial locations but not at distant locations. Thus, during the …

Emergence of feature-specific connectivity in cortical microcircuits in the absence of visual experience

H Ko, TD Mrsic-Flogel, SB Hofer - Journal of Neuroscience, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
In primary visual cortex (V1), connectivity between layer 2/3 (L2/3) excitatory neurons
undergoes extensive reorganization after the onset of visual experience whereby neurons …

[HTML][HTML] Receptive-field modification in rat visual cortex induced by paired visual stimulation and single-cell spiking

CD Meliza, Y Dan - Neuron, 2006 - cell.com
Experience-dependent plasticity of visual cortical receptive fields (RFs) involves synaptic
modifications in the underlying neural circuits, but the site and mechanism of these …

Perceptual learning selectively refines orientation representations in early visual cortex

JFM Jehee, S Ling, JD Swisher… - Journal of …, 2012 - Soc Neuroscience
Although practice has long been known to improve perceptual performance, the neural
basis of this improvement in humans remains unclear. Using fMRI in conjunction with a …

[HTML][HTML] Recent visual experience shapes visual processing in rats through stimulus-specific adaptation and response enhancement

K Vinken, R Vogels, HO de Beeck - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
From an ecological point of view, it is generally suggested that the main goal of vision in rats
and mice is navigation and (aerial) predator evasion [1–3]. The latter requires fast and …