ReviewVisual neuroscience2017
Thalamocortical processing in vision.
Review in Visual neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
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- Binocular receptive-field construction in the primary visual cortex.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
- Neuronal composition of processing modules in human V1: laminar density for neuronal and non-neuronal populations and a comparison with macaque.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Subclass-specific expression patterns of MET receptor tyrosine kinase during development in medial prefrontal and visual cortices.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2023Article
- Thalamocortical boutons cluster by ON/OFF responses in mouse primary visual cortex.Journal of neurophysiology · 2023Article
- Cortical mechanisms of visual brightness.Cell reports · 2022Article
- ON/OFF domains shape receptive field structure in mouse visual cortex.Nature communications · 2022Article
- A theory of cortical map formation in the visual brain.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Structural and Functional Plasticity in the Dorsolateral Geniculate Nucleus of Mice following Bilateral Enucleation.Neuroscience · 2022Article
- Thalamocortical Spectral Transmission Relies on Balanced Input Strengths.Brain topography · 2022Article
- Sparse thalamocortical convergence.Current biology : CB · 2021Article
- The Expression Patterns of Cytochrome Oxidase and Immediate-Early Genes Show Absence of Ocular Dominance Columns in the Striate Cortex of Squirrel Monkeys Following Monocular Inactivation.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2021Article
- Origins of Functional Organization in the Visual Cortex.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2020Review
- Structural brain damage and visual disorders in children with cerebral palsy due to periventricular leukomalacia.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2020Article
- Diversity of Ocular Dominance Patterns in Visual Cortex Originates from Variations in Local Cortical Retinotopy.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019Article
- Points and lines inside human brains.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2019Review
- Medial prefrontal cortex in neurological diseases.Physiological genomics · 2019Review
- Thalamocortical Circuits and Functional Architecture.Annual review of vision science · 2018Review
- Local tuning biases in mouse primary visual cortex.Journal of neurophysiology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Visual information reaches the cerebral cortex through a major thalamocortical pathway that connects the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of the thalamus with the primary visual area of the cortex (area V1). In humans, ∼3.4 million afferents from the LGN are distributed within a V1 surface of ∼2400 mm2, an afferent number that is reduced by half in the macaque and by more than two orders of magnitude in the mouse. Thalamocortical afferents are sorted in visual cortex based on the spatial position of their receptive fields to form a map of visual space. The visual resolution within this map is strongly correlated with total number of thalamic afferents that V1 receives and the area available to sort them. The ∼20,000 afferents of the mouse are only sorted by spatial position because they have to cover a large visual field (∼300 deg) within just 4 mm2 of V1 area. By contrast, the ∼500,000 afferents of the cat are also sorted by eye input and light/dark polarity because they cover a smaller visual field (∼200 deg) within a much larger V1 area (∼400 mm2), a sorting principle that is likely to apply also to macaques and humans. The increased precision of thalamic sorting allows building multiple copies of the V1 visual map for left/right eyes and light/dark polarities, which become interlaced to keep neurons representing the same visual point close together. In turn, this interlaced arrangement makes cortical neurons with different preferences for stimulus orientation to rotate around single cortical points forming a pinwheel pattern that allows more efficient processing of objects and visual textures.
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