2010
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2010.00020
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Cellular imaging of visual cortex reveals the spatial and functional organization of spontaneous activity

Abstract: The cerebral cortex is never silent; even in primary sensory areas there is ongoing neural activity in the absence of sensory input. Correlations in spontaneous activity can provide clues about network structure, but it has been difficult to record from enough nearby neurons to sample these correlations well. We used in vivo two-photon calcium imaging to demonstrate sparse patterns of correlated spontaneous activity among groups of ∼150 simultaneously imaged cells. In cat visual cortex, correlations fell off s… Show more

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“…Our results, using a technique with cellular resolution in awake mice, extend the study by Kenet et al (19) and demonstrate that the ensembles that are active spontaneously are also activated by visual stimuli. Our results are also consistent with the finding that a pair of neurons with the same preference for oriented gratings exhibits higher cell-to-cell correlation during spontaneous activity than a pair of neurons with a preference for orthogonally oriented gratings in anesthetized animals (37).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 92%
“…Our results, using a technique with cellular resolution in awake mice, extend the study by Kenet et al (19) and demonstrate that the ensembles that are active spontaneously are also activated by visual stimuli. Our results are also consistent with the finding that a pair of neurons with the same preference for oriented gratings exhibits higher cell-to-cell correlation during spontaneous activity than a pair of neurons with a preference for orthogonally oriented gratings in anesthetized animals (37).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 92%
“…The cortical spread of LFP was found to vary significantly across cortical layers in macaque V1, from 150 lm in layer 4B to 280 lm in layer 2/3 (Xing et al, 2009). For comparison, correlations in spontaneous neuronal spiking activity in cat visual cortex have been shown to fall to 50% within 240 lm (Ch'ng and Reid, 2010).…”
Section: Factors Influencing Spatiotemporal Dynamicsmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Moreover, SOMs disinhibit layer 4 through powerful inhibition of PVs [44]. Thus we expect that during lasting high frequency neocortical activity, such as is seen spontaneously and in response to sensory stimuli in vivo [45,46], there is a rapid-onset, transient blanket of inhibition by PVs which is later replaced by a slowly recruited, persistent blanket mediated by SOMs.…”
Section: Early and Late Blanket Inhibitionmentioning
confidence: 99%