1. A large-scale standardized physiological survey reveals functional organization of the mouse visual cortex
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Thuyanh V. Nguyen, Melise Edwards, Linzy Casal, Michael A. Buice, Shiella Caldejon, Derric Williams, Nathalie Gaudreault, Ryan Valenza, Nicholas Cain, Cliff Slaughterbeck, Jennifer Luviano, Saskia E. J. de Vries, Fuhui Long, Jianghong Shi, Ali Williford, Shawn R. Olsen, Stefan Mihalas, Terri L. Gilbert, Nicholas Bowles, Daniela Witten, Jed Perkins, David Feng, Nathan Sjoquist, Lu Li, Eric Shea-Brown, Michael Oliver, Wayne Wakeman, Kyla Mace, Tom Keenan, Gabriel Koch Ocker, Chris Lau, Sissy Cross, Perry Hargrave, Amy Bernard, R. Clay Reid, Jack Waters, Kate Roll, Peter Ledochowitsch, John W. Phillips, Ulf Knoblich, Felix Lee, Andrew Cho, Miranda Robertson, Peter A. Groblewski, John Galbraith, Sean Jewell, Arielle Leon, Tim A. Dolbeare, Sam Seid, Marina Garrett, Fiona Griffin, Josh D Larkin, Nika H. Keller, Robert Howard, Chinh Dang, Chris Barber, Colin Farrell, White C, Nathan Berbesque, Carol L. Thompson, Eric Lee, Jun Zhuang, Hongkui Zeng, Daniel Millman, Lydia Ng, Leonard Kuan, Christof Koch, Brandon Blanchard, David Sullivan, Jérôme Lecoq, Rachael Larsen, and Lawrence Huang
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0301 basic medicine ,Dorsum ,Visual perception ,genetic structures ,Extramural ,General Neuroscience ,Datasets as Topic ,Sensory system ,Stimulus (physiology) ,Biology ,Article ,Visual motion ,Mice ,03 medical and health sciences ,030104 developmental biology ,0302 clinical medicine ,Visual cortex ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,medicine ,Animals ,Functional organization ,Neuroscience ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Visual Cortex - Abstract
To understand how the brain processes sensory information to guide behavior, we must know how stimulus representations are transformed throughout the visual cortex. Here we report an open, large-scale physiological survey of activity in the awake mouse visual cortex: the Allen Brain Observatory Visual Coding dataset. This publicly available dataset includes the cortical activity of nearly 60,000 neurons from six visual areas, four layers, and 12 transgenic mouse lines in a total of 243 adult mice, in response to a systematic set of visual stimuli. We classify neurons on the basis of joint reliabilities to multiple stimuli and validate this functional classification with models of visual responses. While most classes are characterized by responses to specific subsets of the stimuli, the largest class is not reliably responsive to any of the stimuli and becomes progressively larger in higher visual areas. These classes reveal a functional organization wherein putative dorsal areas show specialization for visual motion signals.
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- 2019