Temporal stability of stimulus representation increases along rodent visual cortical hierarchies

Eugenio Piasini, Liviu Soltuzu, Paolo Muratore, Riccardo Caramellino, Kasper Vinken, Hans Op de Beeck, Vijay Balasubramanian and Davide Zoccolan ()
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Eugenio Piasini: University of Pennsylvania
Liviu Soltuzu: International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)
Paolo Muratore: International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)
Riccardo Caramellino: International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)
Kasper Vinken: Harvard Medical School
Hans Op de Beeck: Leuven Brain Institute, KU Leuven
Vijay Balasubramanian: University of Pennsylvania
Davide Zoccolan: International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)

Nature Communications, 2021, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-19

Abstract: Abstract Cortical representations of brief, static stimuli become more invariant to identity-preserving transformations along the ventral stream. Likewise, increased invariance along the visual hierarchy should imply greater temporal persistence of temporally structured dynamic stimuli, possibly complemented by temporal broadening of neuronal receptive fields. However, such stimuli could engage adaptive and predictive processes, whose impact on neural coding dynamics is unknown. By probing the rat analog of the ventral stream with movies, we uncovered a hierarchy of temporal scales, with deeper areas encoding visual information more persistently. Furthermore, the impact of intrinsic dynamics on the stability of stimulus representations grew gradually along the hierarchy. A database of recordings from mouse showed similar trends, additionally revealing dependencies on the behavioral state. Overall, these findings show that visual representations become progressively more stable along rodent visual processing hierarchies, with an important contribution provided by intrinsic processing.

Date: 2021
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