RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Untangling cortical maps in mouse primary visual cortex
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 102079
DO 10.1101/102079
A1 Luis O. Jimenez
A1 Elaine Tring
A1 Joshua T. Trachtenberg
A1 Dario L. Ringach
YR 2017
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/01/21/102079.abstract
AB Local populations of neurons in mouse visual cortex exhibit diverse tuning preferences. We show this seeming disorder can be untangled — the similarity of tuning between pairs of neurons is correlated better with the overlap between their receptive fields in visual space rather than with their distance in the cortex. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that salt-and-pepper maps arise from the lateral dispersion of clonally related neurons.