ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2017
Visual Stimulus Speed Does Not Influence the Rapid Emergence of Direction Selectivity in Ferret Visual Cortex.
Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Early Development of Direction Selectivity in the Higher Visual Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Functional architecture for speed tuning in primary visual cortex of carnivores.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Premature vision drives aberrant development of response properties in primary visual cortex.eLife · 2025Article
- Premature vision drives aberrant development of response properties in primary visual cortex.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Impact of Acute Visual Experience on Development of LGN Receptive Fields in the Ferret.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Development of Functional Properties in the Early Visual System: New Appreciations of the Roles of Lateral Geniculate Nucleus.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2022Review
- A Model for the Origin of Motion Direction Selectivity in Visual Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- An early phase of instructive plasticity before the typical onset of sensory experience.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Does experience provide a permissive or instructive influence on the development of direction selectivity in visual cortex?Neural development · 2018Review
- Development of Cross-Orientation Suppression and Size Tuning and the Role of Experience.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018Article
- Early Development of Network Oscillations in the Ferret Visual Cortex.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Sensory experience is necessary for the development of some receptive field properties of neurons in primary sensory cortical areas. However, it remains unclear whether the parameters of an individual animal's experience play an instructive role and influence the tuning parameters of cortical sensory neurons as selectivity emerges, or rather whether experience merely permits the completion of processes that are fully seeded at the onset of experience. Here we have examined whether the speed of visual stimuli that are presented to visually naive ferrets can influence the parameters of speed tuning and direction selectivity in cortical neurons. Visual experience is necessary for the development of direction selectivity in carnivores. If, during development, cortical neurons had the flexibility to choose from among different inputs with a range of spatial positions and temporal delays, then correlation-based plasticity mechanisms could instruct the precise spatiotemporal selectivity that underlies speed tuning and direction selectivity, and the parameters of an individual animal's experience would influence the tuning that emerges. Alternatively, the tuning parameters of these neurons may already be established at the onset of visual experience, and experience may merely permit the expression of this tuning. We found that providing different groups of animals with either slow (12.5 deg/s) or fast (50 deg/s) visual stimuli resulted in emergence of direction selectivity, but that speed tuning and direction selectivity were similar in the two groups. These results are more consistent with a permissive role for experience in the development of direction selectivity.
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