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Visual Motion and Form Integration in the Behaving Ferret.
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- Ferret as a model system for studying the anatomy and function of the prefrontal cortex: A systematic review.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Heading and Then Saccades Predict Visual Discrimination Decisions in Freely Moving Ferrets.eNeuro · 2026Article
- Body Size Awareness and Modular Self-Representation in Reedfish (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- NSF Workshop Report: Exploring Measurements and Interpretations of Intelligent Behaviors Across Animal Model Systems.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2025Article
- Eye saccades align optic flow with retinal specializations during object pursuit in freely moving ferrets.Current biology : CB · 2025Article
- Development of Higher-Level Vision: A Network Perspective.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Review
- Pharmacokinetics of Extended-release Buprenorphine and Clinical Efficacy for Postoperative Pain Management in the Domestic Ferret (Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2024Article
- Behaviourally modulated hippocampal theta oscillations in the ferret persist during both locomotion and immobility.Nature communications · 2022Article
- 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
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Abstract
Ferrets have become a standard animal model for the development of early visual stages. Less is known about higher-level vision in ferrets, both during development and in adulthood. Here, as a step towards establishing higher-level vision research in ferrets, we used behavioral experiments to test the motion and form integration capacity of adult ferrets. Motion integration was assessed by training ferrets to discriminate random dot kinematograms (RDK) based on their direction. Task difficulty was varied systematically by changing RDK coherence levels, which allowed the measurement of motion integration thresholds. Form integration was measured analogously by training ferrets to discriminate linear Glass patterns of varying coherence levels based on their orientation. In all experiments, ferrets proved to be good psychophysical subjects that performed tasks reliably. Crucially, the behavioral data showed clear evidence of perceptual motion and form integration. In the monkey, motion and form integration are usually associated with processes occurring in higher-level visual areas. In a second set of experiments, we therefore tested whether PSS, a higher-level motion area in the ferret, could similarly support motion integration behavior in this species. To this end, we measured responses of PSS neurons to RDK of different coherence levels. Indeed, neurometric functions for PSS were in good agreement with the behaviorally derived psychometric functions. In conclusion, our experiments demonstrate that ferrets are well suited for higher-level vision research.
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