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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Retinal ganglion cells encode the direction of motion outside their classical receptive field.

Serena Riccitelli, Hadar Yaakov, Alina S Heukamp, Lea Ankri, Michal Rivlin-Etzion

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Serena RiccitelliDepartment of Brain Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-4369-4586
Hadar YaakovDepartment of Brain Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
Alina S HeukampDepartment of Brain Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
Lea AnkriDepartment of Brain Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-7622-6239
Michal Rivlin-EtzionDepartment of Brain Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.

Funding

CHE | Israeli Centers for Research Excellence (I-CORE) 51/11EC | H2020 | PRIORITY 'Excellent science' | H2020 European Research Council (ERC) 757732Israel Science Foundation (ISF) 2449/20Minerva Foundation (Minerva Stiftung) 0000
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Abstract

Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) typically respond to light stimulation over their spatially restricted receptive field. Using large-scale recordings in the mouse retina, we show that a subset of non- direction-selective (DS) RGCs exhibit asymmetric activity, selective to motion direction, in response to a stimulus crossing an area far beyond the classic receptive field. The extraclassical response arises via inputs from an asymmetric distal zone and is enhanced by desensitization mechanisms and an inherent DS component, creating a network of neurons responding to motion toward the optic disc. Pharmacological manipulations revealed the necessity of glycinergic amacrine cells for this response. Using in vivo recordings, we identified similar extraclassical responses in lateral geniculate nucleus neurons, suggesting such non conventional DS information is transferred to downstream structures. Our results suggest a complex integration of motion direction processing across the visual field, which arises beyond the classical receptive field boundaries.

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Amacrine CellsMotion PerceptionPhotic StimulationRetinal Ganglion CellsVisual FieldsAnimalsGeniculate BodiesMiceMice, Inbred C57BLRetinaVisual Pathwaysdesensitizationdirection selectivityextraclassical receptive fieldlateral geniculate nucleusretinal ganglion cells

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PMID39793063
PMCPMC11725840

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