Adaptive coding across visual features during free-viewing and fixation conditions

Sunny Nigam (), Russell Milton, Sorin Pojoga and Valentin Dragoi ()
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Sunny Nigam: University of Texas at Houston
Russell Milton: University of Texas at Houston
Sorin Pojoga: University of Texas at Houston
Valentin Dragoi: University of Texas at Houston

Nature Communications, 2023, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: Abstract Theoretical studies have long proposed that adaptation allows the brain to effectively use the limited response range of sensory neurons to encode widely varying natural inputs. However, despite this influential view, experimental studies have exclusively focused on how the neural code adapts to a range of stimuli lying along a single feature axis, such as orientation or contrast. Here, we performed electrical recordings in macaque visual cortex (area V4) to reveal significant adaptive changes in the neural code of single cells and populations across multiple feature axes. Both during free viewing and passive fixation, populations of cells improved their ability to encode image features after rapid exposure to stimuli lying on orthogonal feature axes even in the absence of initial tuning to these stimuli. These results reveal a remarkable adaptive capacity of visual cortical populations to improve network computations relevant for natural viewing despite the modularity of the functional cortical architecture.

Date: 2023
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