Separable codes for read-out of mouse primary visual cortex across attentional states

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Glickfeld, Lindsey L

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Wilson, Ashley Marie

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2020-02-10T17:28:12Z

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2022-01-10T09:17:21Z

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2019

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Neurobiology

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Attentional modulation of neuronal activity in sensory cortex could alter perception by enhancing the local representation of attended stimuli or its behavioral read-out downstream. We tested these hypotheses using a task in which mice are cued on interleaved trials to attend visual or auditory targets. Neurons in primary visual cortex (V1) that encode task stimuli have larger visually-evoked responses when attention is directed toward vision. To determine whether the attention-dependent changes in V1 reflect changes in representation or read-out, we decoded task stimuli and choices from population activity. Surprisingly, both visual and auditory choices can be decoded from V1, but decoding takes advantage of unique activity patterns across modalities. Furthermore, decoding of choices, but not stimuli, is impaired when attention is directed toward the opposite modality. The specific effect on choice suggests behavioral improvements with attention are largely due to targeted read-out of the most informative V1 neurons.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/20144

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Neurosciences

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Attention

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Auditory

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Mouse

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population

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primary visual cortex

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Separable codes for read-out of mouse primary visual cortex across attentional states

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Dissertation

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22.980821917808218

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