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ELIFE
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
eLIFE SCIENCES PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.52757
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/N013956/1, BB/N019008/1]
- Wellcome [200790/Z/16/Z]
- Simons Foundation [564408]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/R035806/1]
- BBSRC [BB/N019008/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- EPSRC [EP/R035806/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Wellcome Trust [200790/Z/16/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
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Perturbation of neuronal activity is key to understanding the brain's functional properties, however, intervention studies typically perturb neurons in a nonspecific manner. Recent optogenetics techniques have enabled patterned perturbations, in which specific patterns of activity can be invoked in identified target neurons to reveal more specific cortical function. Here, we argue that patterned perturbation of neurons is in fact necessary to reveal the specific dynamics of inhibitory stabilization, emerging in cortical networks with strong excitatory and inhibitory functional subnetworks, as recently reported in mouse visual cortex. We propose a specific perturbative signature of these networks and investigate how this can be measured under different experimental conditions. Functionally, rapid spontaneous transitions between selective ensembles of neurons emerge in such networks, consistent with experimental results. Our study outlines the dynamical and functional properties of feature-specific inhibitory-stabilized networks, and suggests experimental protocols that can be used to detect them in the intact cortex.
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