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ArticleeLife2021

Spatially displaced excitation contributes to the encoding of interrupted motion by a retinal direction-selective circuit.

Jennifer Ding, Albert Chen, Janet Chung, Hector Acaron Ledesma, Mofei Wu, David M Berson, Stephanie E Palmer, Wei Wei

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Article in eLife, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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  1. Natural motion statistics unify direction computations.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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8 authors.

Jennifer DingCommittee on Neurobiology Graduate Program, The University of Chicago, Chicago, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2282-6615
Albert ChenDepartment of Organismal Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9306-8703
Janet ChungDepartment of Neurobiology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, United States.
Hector Acaron LedesmaGraduate Program in Biophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, United States.
Mofei WuDepartment of Neurobiology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, United States.
David M BersonDepartment of Neuroscience and Carney Institute for Brain Science, Brown University, Providence, United States.
Stephanie E PalmerCommittee on Neurobiology Graduate Program, The University of Chicago, Chicago, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6211-6293
Wei WeiCommittee on Neurobiology Graduate Program, The University of Chicago, Chicago, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7771-5974

Funding

STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF MAMMALIAN GANGLION CELLSR01EY012793 · NEI · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI BERSON, DAVID M. · 2000 to 2022
$9.3M
Circuit mechanisms for encoding naturalistic motion in the mammalian retinaR01NS109990 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI WEI, WEI · 2018 to 2022
$3.3M
Synaptic basis of motion detection in the retinaR01EY024016 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI WEI, WEI · 2014 to 2018
$1.9M
Coarse-graining approaches to networks, learning, and behaviorR01EB026943 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI BIALEK, WILLIAM, PALMER, STEPHANIE E · 2018 to 2020
$1.1M
Mechanisms underlying orientation selectivity in the mature mouse retinaF31EY029156 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI ACARON, HECTOR · 2019 to 2020
$78k
NEI NIH HHS F31 EY029156NEI NIH HHS R01 EY012793NEI NIH HHS R01 EY024016NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB026943NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS109990
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spatially distributed excitation and inhibition collectively shape a visual neuron's receptive field (RF) properties. In the direction-selective circuit of the mammalian retina, the role of strong null-direction inhibition of On-Off direction-selective ganglion cells (On-Off DSGCs) on their direction selectivity is well-studied. However, how excitatory inputs influence the On-Off DSGC's visual response is underexplored. Here, we report that On-Off DSGCs have a spatially displaced glutamatergic receptive field along their horizontal preferred-null motion axes. This displaced receptive field contributes to DSGC null-direction spiking during interrupted motion trajectories. Theoretical analyses indicate that population responses during interrupted motion may help populations of On-Off DSGCs signal the spatial location of moving objects in complex, naturalistic visual environments. Our study highlights that the direction-selective circuit exploits separate sets of mechanisms under different stimulus conditions, and these mechanisms may help encode multiple visual features.

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Evoked Potentials, VisualExcitatory Postsynaptic PotentialsMotion PerceptionSynaptic TransmissionVisual FieldsAnimalsCalcium SignalingFemaleGlutamic AcidMaleMiceMice, 129 StrainMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicModels, NeurologicalPhotic StimulationGlutamic Aciddendritesdirection-selective ganglion cellsdirection selectivitymouseneuroscienceretinal circuitrysynaptic exciationvisual motion

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PMID34096504
PMCPMC8211448

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