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- Title
Brain State Effects on Layer 4 of the Awake Visual Cortex.
- Authors
Jun Zhuang; Bereshpolova, Yulia; Stoelzel, Carl R.; Huff, Joseph M.; Xiaojuan Hei; Alonso, Jose-Manuel; Swadlow, Harvey A.
- Abstract
Awake mammals can switch between alert and nonalert brain states hundreds of times per day. Here, we study the effects of alertness on two cell classes in layer 4 of primary visual cortex of awake rabbits: presumptive excitatory "simple" cells and presumptive fast-spike inhibitory neurons (suspected inhibitory interneurons). We show that in both cell classes, alertness increases the strength and greatly enhances the reliability of visual responses. In simple cells, alertness also increases the temporal frequency bandwidth, but preserves contrast sensitivity, orientation tuning, and selectivity for direction and spatial frequency. Finally, alertness selectively suppresses the simple cell responses to high-contrast stimuli and stimuli moving orthogonal to the preferred direction, effectively enhancing mid-contrast borders. Using a population coding model, we show that these effects of alertness in simple cells- enhanced reliability, higher gain, and increased suppression in orthogonal orientation- could play a major role at increasing the speed of cortical feature detection.
- Subjects
VISUAL cortex; MAMMAL behavior; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; RECEPTIVE fields (Neurology); NEURAL transmission
- Publication
Journal of Neuroscience, 2014, Vol 34, Issue 11, p3888
- ISSN
0270-6474
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4969-13.2014