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. 2018 Jul 1;120(1):272-273.
doi: 10.1152/jn.00305.2018. Epub 2018 May 9.

Seeing with a biased visual cortical map

Reece Mazade  1 , Cristopher M Niell  2 , Jose M Alonso  1
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Seeing with a biased visual cortical map

Reece Mazade et al. J Neurophysiol. .
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Figures

Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Cortical biases in the combined representation of retinotopy with stimulus tuning and dark/light contrast polarity in mouse primary visual cortex (Jimenez et al. 2018). A: cartoon representing a weak but significant positive correlation between tuning similarity and receptive field overlap (the dotted ellipse represents data spread, and the solid line represents the data trend). B: cartoon representing the bias of cortical responses toward dark stimuli. Blue histogram represents the probability of finding a cortical neuron dominated by the OFF pathway (responds stronger to dark stimuli). Red histogram represents the probability of finding a cortical neuron dominated by the ON pathway (responds stronger to light stimuli). Dotted line represents neurons with balanced ON/OFF responses.
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  • Local tuning biases in mouse primary visual cortex.
    Jimenez LO, Tring E, Trachtenberg JT, Ringach DL. Jimenez LO, et al. J Neurophysiol. 2018 Jul 1;120(1):274-280. doi: 10.1152/jn.00150.2018. Epub 2018 Apr 18. J Neurophysiol. 2018. PMID: 29668380 Free PMC article.

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