ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2018
Visual Neurons in the Superior Colliculus Discriminate Many Objects by Their Historical Values.
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- Multiple groups of neurons in the superior colliculus convert value signals into saccadic vigor.iScience · 2026Article
- Superior colliculus encodes the visual cue associated with rewarding behavior in sucrose self-administration in mice.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Reward Modulates Visual Responses in the Superficial Superior Colliculus of Mice.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- A deep neural network model of the primate superior colliculus for emotion recognition.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Environment-based object values learned by local network in the striatum tail.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Previously Reward-Associated Stimuli Capture Spatial Attention in the Absence of Changes in the Corresponding Sensory Representations as Measured with MEG.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020Article
- Optogenetic manipulation of a value-coding pathway from the primate caudate tail facilitates saccadic gaze shift.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Visual fixation patterns during economic choice reflect covert valuation processes that emerge with learning.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Indirect pathway from caudate tail mediates rejection of bad objects in periphery.Science advances · 2019Article
- Punishment-related memory-guided attention: Neural dynamics of perceptual modulation.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2019Article
- The Caudal Part of Putamen Represents the Historical Object Value Information.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019Article
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Abstract
The superior colliculus (SC) is an important structure in the mammalian brain that orients the animal toward distinct visual events. Visually responsive neurons in SC are modulated by visual object features, including size, motion, and color. However, it remains unclear whether SC activity is modulated by non-visual object features, such as the reward value associated with the object. To address this question, three monkeys were trained (>10 days) to saccade to multiple fractal objects, half of which were consistently associated with large rewards while other half were associated with small rewards. This created historically high-valued ('good') and low-valued ('bad') objects. During the neuronal recordings from the SC, the monkeys maintained fixation at the center while the objects were flashed in the receptive field of the neuron without any reward. We found that approximately half of the visual neurons responded more strongly to the good than bad objects. In some neurons, this value-coding remained intact for a long time (>1 year) after the last object-reward association learning. Notably, the neuronal discrimination of reward values started about 100 ms after the appearance of visual objects and lasted for more than 100 ms. These results provide evidence that SC neurons can discriminate objects by their historical (long-term) values. This object value information may be provided by the basal ganglia, especially the circuit originating from the tail of the caudate nucleus. The information may be used by the neural circuits inside SC for motor (saccade) output or may be sent to the circuits outside SC for future behavior.
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