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ArticleNeuron2015

The stabilized supralinear network: a unifying circuit motif underlying multi-input integration in sensory cortex.

Daniel B Rubin, Stephen D Van Hooser, Kenneth D Miller

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Article in Neuron, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 195 papers.

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195 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Daniel B RubinCenter for Theoretical Neuroscience, Doctoral Program in Neurobiology and Behavior, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Stephen D Van HooserDepartment of Biology, Swartz Center for Theoretical Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA.
Kenneth D MillerCenter for Theoretical Neuroscience, Doctoral Program in Neurobiology and Behavior, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Swartz Program in Theoretical Neuroscience, Kavli Institute for Brain Science, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA. Electronic address: ken@neurotheory.columbia.edu.

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM007367 · NIGMS · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI REINER, STEVEN L · 1985 to 2021
$25.1M
Circuit mechanisms underlying experience-dependent developmentR01EY022122 · NEI · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · PI VAN HOOSER, STEPHEN D · 2013 to 2022
$3.8M
Models of visual cortical circuitry and developmentR01EY011001 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO · PI MILLER, KENNETH D · 1994 to 2010
$2.5M
Imaging Neural Circuit Activity in the Mammalian Central Nervous SystemP30NS069339 · NINDS · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · PI MARDER, EVE E · 2009 to 2010
$871k
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY011001NEI NIH HHS R01 EY022122NEI NIH HHS R01-EY11001NIGMS NIH HHS 5 T32 GM007367-36NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007367NINDS NIH HHS NIH P30NS069339NINDS NIH HHS P30 NS069339
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurons in sensory cortex integrate multiple influences to parse objects and support perception. Across multiple cortical areas, integration is characterized by two neuronal response properties: (1) surround suppression--modulatory contextual stimuli suppress responses to driving stimuli; and (2) "normalization"--responses to multiple driving stimuli add sublinearly. These depend on input strength: for weak driving stimuli, contextual influences facilitate or more weakly suppress and summation becomes linear or supralinear. Understanding the circuit operations underlying integration is critical to understanding cortical function and disease. We present a simple, general theory. A wealth of integrative properties, including the above, emerge robustly from four cortical circuit properties: (1) supralinear neuronal input/output functions; (2) sufficiently strong recurrent excitation; (3) feedback inhibition; and (4) simple spatial properties of intracortical connections. Integrative properties emerge dynamically as circuit properties, with excitatory and inhibitory neurons showing similar behaviors. In new recordings in visual cortex, we confirm key model predictions.

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AnimalsAuditory CortexFeedback, PhysiologicalFerretsLinear ModelsModels, NeurologicalNeural InhibitionNeuronsNonlinear DynamicsOlfactory CortexPhotic StimulationSomatosensory CortexVisual Cortex

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PMID25611511
PMCPMC4344127

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