ReviewVisual neuroscience2012
Parasol cell mosaics are unlikely to drive the formation of structured orientation maps in primary visual cortex.
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- From random to regular: Variation in the patterning of retinal mosaics.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2020Review
- Spontaneous Retinal Waves Can Generate Long-Range Horizontal Connectivity in Visual Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020Article
- Origins of Functional Organization in the Visual Cortex.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2020Review
- Distribution and diversity of intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells in tree shrew.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2019Article
- Interlayer Repulsion of Retinal Ganglion Cell Mosaics Regulates Spatial Organization of Functional Maps in the Visual Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2017Article
- Neural field model to reconcile structure with function in primary visual cortex.PLoS computational biology · 2017Article
- Topographic Independent Component Analysis reveals random scrambling of orientation in visual space.PloS one · 2017Article
- Random Wiring, Ganglion Cell Mosaics, and the Functional Architecture of the Visual Cortex.PLoS computational biology · 2015Article
- Design principles and developmental mechanisms underlying retinal mosaics.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2015Review
- Neurons in cat V1 show significant clustering by degree of tuning.Journal of neurophysiology · 2015Article
- Statistics and geometry of orientation selectivity in primary visual cortex.Biological cybernetics · 2014Article
- Pituitary tumor-transforming gene 1 regulates the patterning of retinal mosaics.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2014Article
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Abstract
The receptive fields of on- and off-center parasol cell mosaics independently tile the retina to ensure efficient sampling of visual space. A recent theoretical model represented the on- and off-center mosaics by noisy hexagonal lattices of slightly different density. When the two lattices are overlaid, long-range Moiré interference patterns are generated. These Moiré interference patterns have been suggested to drive the formation of highly structured orientation maps in visual cortex. Here, we show that noisy hexagonal lattices do not capture the spatial statistics of parasol cell mosaics. An alternative model based upon local exclusion zones, termed as the pairwise interaction point process (PIPP) model, generates patterns that are statistically indistinguishable from parasol cell mosaics. A key difference between the PIPP model and the hexagonal lattice model is that the PIPP model does not generate Moiré interference patterns, and hence stimulated orientation maps do not show any hexagonal structure. Finally, we estimate the spatial extent of spatial correlations in parasol cell mosaics to be only 200-350 μm, far less than that required to generate Moiré interference. We conclude that parasol cell mosaics are too disordered to drive the formation of highly structured orientation maps in visual cortex.
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