ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2017
Visual Cortex Limits Pop-Out in the Superior Colliculus of Awake Mice.
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- Corticothalamic feedback sculpts visual spatial integration in mouse thalamus.Nature neuroscience · 2021Article
- The influence of subcortical shortcuts on disordered sensory and cognitive processing.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2020Review
- TrkB Activation during a Critical Period Mimics the Protective Effects of Early Visual Experience on Perception and the Stability of Receptive Fields in Adult Superior Colliculus.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019Article
- Visual response properties of neurons in the superficial layers of the superior colliculus of awake mouse.The Journal of physiology · 2018Article
- Functional modulation of primary visual cortex by the superior colliculus in the mouse.Nature communications · 2018Article
- Visual Processing by Calretinin Expressing Inhibitory Neurons in Mouse Primary Visual Cortex.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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- An Automated Water Task to Test Visual Discrimination Performance, Adaptive Strategies and Stereotyped Choices in Freely Moving Mice.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2018Article
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Abstract
We detect objects more readily if they differ from their surroundings in motion, color, or texture. This increased saliency is thought to be related to increased responses in the visual cortex. The superior colliculus is another brain area involved in vision and especially in directing gaze and attention. In this study, we show that differences in texture orientation also increase responses in the superficial layers of the superior colliculus that receive retinal and cortical input. We found that gratings evoke more neural response when surrounded by orthogonal gratings than when surrounded by parallel gratings, particularly in the awake mouse. This pop-out is not originating from the visual cortex, and silencing visual cortex increased the relative difference in response. A model shows that this can result from retinotopically matched excitation from visual cortex to the superior colliculus. We suggest that the perceptual saliency of a stimulus differing from its surround in a low-level feature like grating orientation could depend on visual processing in the superior colliculus.
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