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ArticleeLife2020

Representation of visual landmarks in retrosplenial cortex.

Lukas F Fischer, Raul Mojica Soto-Albors, Friederike Buck, Mark T Harnett

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Article in eLife, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers.

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9.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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60 citing papers in PubMed, 120 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lukas F FischerDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9422-3798
Raul Mojica Soto-AlborsDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6987-5417
Friederike BuckDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States.
Mark T HarnettDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5301-1139
McGovern Institute for Brain Research · US

Funding

A dendritic mechanism for cholinergic neuromodulation of cortical functionR01NS106031 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI HARNETT, MARK THOMAS · 2018 to 2022
$1.7M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS106031
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The process by which visual information is incorporated into the brain's spatial framework to represent landmarks is poorly understood. Studies in humans and rodents suggest that retrosplenial cortex (RSC) plays a key role in these computations. We developed an RSC-dependent behavioral task in which head-fixed mice learned the spatial relationship between visual landmark cues and hidden reward locations. Two-photon imaging revealed that these cues served as dominant reference points for most task-active neurons and anchored the spatial code in RSC. This encoding was more robust after task acquisition. Decoupling the virtual environment from mouse behavior degraded spatial representations and provided evidence that supralinear integration of visual and motor inputs contributes to landmark encoding. V1 axons recorded in RSC were less modulated by task engagement but showed surprisingly similar spatial tuning. Our data indicate that landmark representations in RSC are the result of local integration of visual, motor, and spatial information.

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AnimalsBehavior, AnimalFemaleGyrus CinguliMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLSpatial ProcessingVisual Perceptionbehaviormouseneurosciencepopulation imagingretrosplenial cortexsensorimotor integrationspatial navigationvisual cortex

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PMCPMC7064342
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