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ArticleNature communications2019

Contrast and luminance adaptation alter neuronal coding and perception of stimulus orientation.

Masoud Ghodrati, Elizabeth Zavitz, Marcello G P Rosa, Nicholas S C Price

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Article in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Delayed Accumulation of Inhibitory Input Explains Gamma Frequency Variation with Changing Contrast in an Inhibition Stabilized Network.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  3. Recent Visual Experience Reshapes V4 Neuronal Activity and Improves Perceptual Performance.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  7. Rapid Cortical Adaptation and the Role of Thalamic Synchrony during Wakefulness.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021
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  9. Low rank mechanisms underlying flexible visual representations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Masoud GhodratiDepartment of Physiology, Neuroscience Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia. masoud.ghodrati@monash.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4006-2578
Elizabeth ZavitzDepartment of Physiology, Neuroscience Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6501-2358
Marcello G P RosaDepartment of Physiology, Neuroscience Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9404-7704
Nicholas S C PriceDepartment of Physiology, Neuroscience Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia. nicholas.price@monash.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6620-6285

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sensory systems face a barrage of stimulation that continually changes along multiple dimensions. These simultaneous changes create a formidable problem for the nervous system, as neurons must dynamically encode each stimulus dimension, despite changes in other dimensions. Here, we measured how neurons in visual cortex encode orientation following changes in luminance and contrast, which are critical for visual processing, but nuisance variables in the context of orientation coding. Using information theoretic analysis and population decoding approaches, we find that orientation discriminability is luminance and contrast dependent, changing over time due to firing rate adaptation. We also show that orientation discrimination in human observers changes during adaptation, in a manner consistent with the neuronal data. Our results suggest that adaptation does not maintain information rates per se, but instead acts to keep sensory systems operating within the limited dynamic range afforded by spiking activity, despite a wide range of possible inputs.

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Action PotentialsAdaptation, PhysiologicalAdultAnimalsCallithrixContrast SensitivityFemaleHumansMaleNeuronsOrientation, SpatialPhotic StimulationPsychophysicsVisual CortexVisual PerceptionYoung Adult

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PMID30808863
PMCPMC6391449

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