A Standardized Nonvisual Behavioral Event Is Broadcasted Homogeneously across Cortical Visual Areas without Modulating Visual Responses
| Autor: | Kyla Mace, Jérôme Lecoq, Kate Roll, Fiona Griffin, Nathan Berbesque, Shiella Caldejon, Mahdi Ramadan, Eric Lee, India Kato, Paul Rhoads, Robert Howard, Ali Kriedberg, Saskia E. J. de Vries, Josh D Larkin, Thuyanh V. Nguyen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Sensory processing
Computer science Event (computing) media_common.quotation_subject medicine.medical_treatment General Neuroscience Sensory system General Medicine Primary sensory areas Visual processing medicine.anatomical_structure Visual cortex Cortex (anatomy) medicine Contrast (vision) Neuroscience media_common |
| Zdroj: | eneuro. 9:ENEURO.0491-21.2022 |
| ISSN: | 2373-2822 |
| Popis: | Multiple recent studies have shown that motor activity greatly impacts the activity of primary sensory areas like V1. Yet, the role of this motor related activity in sensory processing is still unclear.Here we dissect how these behavior signals are broadcast to different layers and areas of the visual cortex. To do so, we leveraged a standardized and spontaneous behavioral fidget event in passively viewing mice. Importantly, this behavior event had no relevance to any ongoing task allowing us to compare its neuronal correlate with visually relevant behavior like running.A large two-photon Ca2+ imaging database of neuronal responses uncovered four neural response types during fidgets that were surprisingly consistent in their proportion and response patterns across all visual areas and layers of the visual cortex. Indeed, the layer and area identity could not be decoded above chance level based only on neuronal recordings. In contrast to running behavior, fidget evoked neural responses were independent to visual processing.The broad availability of visually orthogonal standardized behavior signals could be a key component in how the cortex selects, learns and binds local sensory information with motor outputs. Contrary to relevant motor outputs, irrelevant motor signals would use a separate neural subspaces.Significance StatementRecent studies have shown contextual and behavioral variables to dominate brain-wide activity, but yet it is unknown how this information is broadcast across cortical layers and areas. Using a large two-photon dataset collected in mice passively viewing a battery of visual stimuli, we characterized the neuronal response of neurons of the visual cortex to a standardized fidget behavior. We found that as much as 47% of excitatory neurons show significant co-activity with fidgets. Throughout all areas and layers we recorded from, those responses were distributed across surprisingly consistent three neural response types. Further analysis showed no interaction between fidget neural events and cells’ visual stimulus responses, contrasting with feedback neural signals induced by running. These contrasting response distribution patterns suggest that behavioral neuronal correlates are broadly available but will modulate sensory responses depending on their relevance to local sensory inputs. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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