Local organization of spatial frequency tuning dynamics in the cat visual areas 17 and 18.

Journal of Neurophysiology
Hiroki Tanaka, Izumi Ohzawa

Abstract

Spatial frequency (SF) is a prominent feature to which most neurons in cat areas 17 and 18 (area 17/18) exhibit tuning selectivity. Previous studies have shown that neurons with similar SF tunings are locally clustered into SF preference domains. However, the functional organization of SF tuning remains not fully understood. Neurons in these areas show a variety of SF tuning dynamics; however, it is unknown how neurons with diverse dynamics are locally organized to form the population dynamics of the domains. The laminar organization of SF dynamics is also unknown, knowledge of which may be useful for determining how SF tuning dynamics of cat area 17/18 neurons arise in cortical circuits. To address these issues, we recorded the activities of multiple neurons in the cat area 17/18 using microelectrode arrays and characterized the time courses of the SF tunings of these neurons by a subspace reverse correlation. A wide range of SF dynamics was already present in the input layer, suggesting that intracortical mechanisms contribute to generating SF dynamics inside this layer but do not further shape it outside this layer. Local neuronal pools with similar SF tunings contained diverse SF dynamics. The average preferred SF of a pool...Continue Reading

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