期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 42, 期 21, 页码 4311-4325出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2272-21.2022
关键词
calcium imaging; learning; mouse; orientation; representation; visual cortex
资金
- Whitehall Foundation [2015-08-69]
- Charles and Johanna Busch Biomedical Grant Program
- National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health [R01-EY030860]
- Fyssen Foundation postdoctoral fellowship
Learning affects neural activity in sensory cortical neurons and alters the representations of cues orientations in the primary visual cortex. This study found that learning an orientation discrimination task improves the accuracy and stability of cue representation in trained mice. It also leads to a distortion of orientation representation space and enhances the generalization of stimuli in the task-relevant computational space.
Learning is an essential cognitive mechanism allowing behavioral adaptation through adjustments in neuronal processing. It is associated with changes in the activity of sensory cortical neurons evoked by task-relevant stimuli. However, the exact nature of those modifications and the computational advantages they may confer are still debated. Here, we investigated how learning an orientation discrimination task alters the neuronal representations of the cues orientations in the primary visual cortex (V1) of male and female mice. When comparing the activity evoked by the task stimuli in naive mice and the mice performing the task, we found that the representations of the orientation of the rewarded and nonrewarded cues were more accurate and stable in trained mice. This better cue representation in trained mice was associated with a distortion of the orientation representation space such that stimuli flanking the task-relevant orientations were represented as the task stimuli themselves, suggesting that those stimuli were generalized as the task cues. This distortion was context dependent as it was absent in trained mice passively viewing the task cues and enhanced in the behavioral sessions where mice performed best. Those modifications of the V1 population orientation representation in performing mice were supported by a suppression of the activity of neurons tuned for orientations neighboring the orientations of the task cues. Thus, visual processing in V1 is dynamically adapted to enhance the reliability of the representation of the learned cues and favor generalization in the taskrelevant computational space.
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