Revisión en Neurociencia

Combination of new electrophysiological and imaging techniques in the study of primary visual cortex function

J. Mariño, J. Schummers, M. Sur [REV NEUROL 2003;36:944-950] PMID: 12766870 DOI: https://doi.org/10.33588/rn.3610.2003186

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Volumen 36 | Number 10 | Nº of views of the article 5.293 | Nº of PDF downloads 568 | Article publication date 16/05/2003

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ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION This work summarizes current research focused on explaining orientation selectivity of primary visual cortex (V1), and describes the electrophysiological and imaging techniques than are being used. DEVELOPMENT. The study of orientation selectivity in V1 is key to understanding the cortical mechanisms implicated in the processing of sensory information, but this enterprise has proved more challenging than previously thought and there is no consensus about the best model to explain V1 neurons’ activity. Ongoing research is focused on determining the importance of the different inputs that a cortical cell receives (thalamic and lateral cortical inputs), and their link to cortical architecture. To achieve that, current research is combining optical imaging techniques with intracellular recordings of V1 neurons. Recent findings have found differences in the synaptic integration performed by neurons located in the isoorientation domains vs orientation centers of the functional V1 map.

CONCLUSIONS Data describing synaptic activity combined with the cortical functional structure are yielding new clues about V1 computation, suggesting that there is more than one mechanism capable of generating orientation selectivity. KeywordsOptical imaging of intrinsic signals Orientation map Primary visual cortex Synaptic effects CategoriesNeurociencia básica

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