Synchrony between orientation-selective neurons is modulated during adaptation-induced plasticity in cat visual cortex
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Visual neurons respond essentially to luminance variations occurring within their receptive fields. In primary visual cortex, each neuron is a filter for stimulus features such as orientation, motion direction and velocity, with the...
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doaj-54f9901155cf465f8eb4d4f83bcc55e62020-11-24T20:41:59ZengBMCBMC Neuroscience1471-22022008-07-01916010.1186/1471-2202-9-60Synchrony between orientation-selective neurons is modulated during adaptation-induced plasticity in cat visual cortexShumikhina SvetlanaNemri AbdellatifGhisovan NarcisMolotchnikoff Stephane<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Visual neurons respond essentially to luminance variations occurring within their receptive fields. In primary visual cortex, each neuron is a filter for stimulus features such as orientation, motion direction and velocity, with the appropriate combination of features eliciting maximal firing rate. Temporal correlation of spike trains was proposed as a potential code for linking the neuronal responses evoked by various features of a same object. In the present study, synchrony strength was measured between cells following an adaptation protocol (prolonged exposure to a non-preferred stimulus) which induce plasticity of neurons' orientation preference.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Multi-unit activity from area 17 of anesthetized adult cats was recorded. Single cells were sorted out and (1) orientation tuning curves were measured before and following 12 min adaptation and 60 min after adaptation (2) pairwise synchrony was measured by an index that was normalized in relation to the cells' firing rate. We first observed that the prolonged presentation of a non-preferred stimulus produces attractive (58%) and repulsive (42%) shifts of cell's tuning curves. It follows that the adaptation-induced plasticity leads to changes in preferred orientation difference, i.e. increase or decrease in tuning properties between neurons. We report here that, after adaptation, the neuron pairs that shared closer tuning properties display a significant increase of synchronization. Recovery from adaptation was accompanied by a return to the initial synchrony level.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>We conclude that synchrony reflects the similarity in neurons' response properties, and varies accordingly when these properties change.</p> http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2202/9/60 |
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Shumikhina Svetlana Nemri Abdellatif Ghisovan Narcis Molotchnikoff Stephane Synchrony between orientation-selective neurons is modulated during adaptation-induced plasticity in cat visual cortex BMC Neuroscience |
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Shumikhina Svetlana Nemri Abdellatif Ghisovan Narcis Molotchnikoff Stephane |
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Synchrony between orientation-selective neurons is modulated during adaptation-induced plasticity in cat visual cortex |
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Synchrony between orientation-selective neurons is modulated during adaptation-induced plasticity in cat visual cortex |
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Synchrony between orientation-selective neurons is modulated during adaptation-induced plasticity in cat visual cortex |
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Synchrony between orientation-selective neurons is modulated during adaptation-induced plasticity in cat visual cortex |
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Synchrony between orientation-selective neurons is modulated during adaptation-induced plasticity in cat visual cortex |
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synchrony between orientation-selective neurons is modulated during adaptation-induced plasticity in cat visual cortex |
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Visual neurons respond essentially to luminance variations occurring within their receptive fields. In primary visual cortex, each neuron is a filter for stimulus features such as orientation, motion direction and velocity, with the appropriate combination of features eliciting maximal firing rate. Temporal correlation of spike trains was proposed as a potential code for linking the neuronal responses evoked by various features of a same object. In the present study, synchrony strength was measured between cells following an adaptation protocol (prolonged exposure to a non-preferred stimulus) which induce plasticity of neurons' orientation preference.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Multi-unit activity from area 17 of anesthetized adult cats was recorded. Single cells were sorted out and (1) orientation tuning curves were measured before and following 12 min adaptation and 60 min after adaptation (2) pairwise synchrony was measured by an index that was normalized in relation to the cells' firing rate. We first observed that the prolonged presentation of a non-preferred stimulus produces attractive (58%) and repulsive (42%) shifts of cell's tuning curves. It follows that the adaptation-induced plasticity leads to changes in preferred orientation difference, i.e. increase or decrease in tuning properties between neurons. We report here that, after adaptation, the neuron pairs that shared closer tuning properties display a significant increase of synchronization. Recovery from adaptation was accompanied by a return to the initial synchrony level.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>We conclude that synchrony reflects the similarity in neurons' response properties, and varies accordingly when these properties change.</p> |
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