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ArticleNeuron2020

Head Movements Control the Activity of Primary Visual Cortex in a Luminance-Dependent Manner.

Guy Bouvier, Yuta Senzai, Massimo Scanziani

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Article in Neuron, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39citing papers in PubMed
6.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Vestibular Dysfunction and Binocular Vision Impairment: A New Clinical Perspective.Ophthalmic & physiological optics : the journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists) · 2026
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  5. Visual Motion Processing in The Tree Shrew Superior Colliculus.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  6. Inter- and intrahemispheric sources of vestibular signals to V1.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  10. Natural visual behavior and active sensing in the mouse.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Guy BouvierDepartment of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: bouvier.ga@gmail.com.
Yuta SenzaiDepartment of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Massimo ScanzianiDepartment of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: massimo@ucsf.edu.
University of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

MAPPING RETINOTECTAL CIRCUITS FOR VISUAL-EVOKED INNATE BEHAVIORSR01NS123912 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI DUAN, XIN, SCANZIANI, MASSIMO · 2021 to 2025
$3.6M
Neural Circuits for the Cortical Control of the Optokinetic ReflexR01EY025668 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI SCANZIANI, MASSIMO · 2016 to 2020
$2.0M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNEI NIH HHS R01 EY025668NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS123912
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The vestibular system broadcasts head-movement-related signals to sensory areas throughout the brain, including visual cortex. These signals are crucial for the brain's ability to assess whether motion of the visual scene results from the animal's head movements. However, how head movements affect visual cortical circuits remains poorly understood. Here, we discover that ambient luminance profoundly transforms how mouse primary visual cortex (V1) processes head movements. While in darkness, head movements result in overall suppression of neuronal activity; in ambient light, the same head movements trigger excitation across all cortical layers. This light-dependent switch in how V1 processes head movements is controlled by somatostatin-expressing (SOM) inhibitory neurons, which are excited by head movements in dark, but not in light. This study thus reveals a light-dependent switch in the response of V1 to head movements and identifies a circuit in which SOM cells are key integrators of vestibular and luminance signals.

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AnimalsHead MovementsInterneuronsLuminescenceMicePhotic StimulationProprioceptionVisual Cortexhead movementsluminancesomatostatin-expressing inhibitory neuronsvestibular systemvisual cortex

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PMID32783882
PMCPMC7666077
OpenAlexW3048383854

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