ReviewNeural development2018
Does experience provide a permissive or instructive influence on the development of direction selectivity in visual cortex?
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- 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
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- Temporal Dynamics of Retinal Inflammation Following Blast Exposure in a Ferret Model.Neurotrauma reports · 2025Article
- Functional neuronal circuits emerge in the absence of developmental activity.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Directional Preference in Avian Midbrain Saliency Computing Nucleus Reflects a Well-Designed Receptive Field Structure.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- The Role of Inhibitory Interneurons in Circuit Assembly and Refinement Across Sensory Cortices.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2022Review
- The Ferret as a Model System for Neocortex Development and Evolution.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Review
- Postnatal Development of Visual Cortical Function in the Mammalian Brain.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2020Review
- Discrimination of Motion Direction in a Robot Using a Phenomenological Model of Synaptic Plasticity.Computational intelligence and neuroscience · 2019Article
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Abstract
In principle, the development of sensory receptive fields in cortex could arise from experience-independent mechanisms that have been acquired through evolution, or through an online analysis of the sensory experience of the individual animal. Here we review recent experiments that suggest that the development of direction selectivity in carnivore visual cortex requires experience, but also suggest that the experience of an individual animal cannot greatly influence the parameters of the direction tuning that emerges, including direction angle preference and speed tuning. The direction angle preference that a neuron will acquire can be predicted from small initial biases that are present in the naïve cortex prior to the onset of visual experience. Further, experience with stimuli that move at slow or fast speeds does not alter the speed tuning properties of direction-selective neurons, suggesting that speed tuning preferences are built in. Finally, unpatterned optogenetic activation of the cortex over a period of a few hours is sufficient to produce the rapid emergence of direction selectivity in the naïve ferret cortex, suggesting that information about the direction angle preference that cells will acquire must already be present in the cortical circuit prior to experience. These results are consistent with the idea that experience has a permissive influence on the development of direction selectivity.
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