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FRONTIERS IN NEURAL CIRCUITS
卷 16, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2022.792959
关键词
mouse vision; instinctive behaviour; midbrain; threat; approach; sensorimotor
资金
- Wellcome Trust Royal Society [200501]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [R004765]
The superior colliculus (SC) is a highly conserved area in the mammalian midbrain that is involved in the organization and control of behavior. Recent studies in mice have provided anatomical data and experimental evidence to understand the roles of different cells within SC in simple behaviors. The functional organization of SC can be explained by three distinct circuits supporting three classes of simple behaviors- arrest, turning towards, and the triggering of escape or capture.
The superior colliculus (SC) is a highly conserved area of the mammalian midbrain that is widely implicated in the organisation and control of behaviour. SC receives input from a large number of brain areas, and provides outputs to a large number of areas. The convergence and divergence of anatomical connections with different areas and systems provides challenges for understanding how SC contributes to behaviour. Recent work in mouse has provided large anatomical datasets, and a wealth of new data from experiments that identify and manipulate different cells within SC, and their inputs and outputs, during simple behaviours. These data offer an opportunity to better understand the roles that SC plays in these behaviours. However, some of the observations appear, at first sight, to be contradictory. Here we review this recent work and hypothesise a simple framework which can capture the observations, that requires only a small change to previous models. Specifically, the functional organisation of SC can be explained by supposing that three largely distinct circuits support three largely distinct classes of simple behaviours-arrest, turning towards, and the triggering of escape or capture. These behaviours are hypothesised to be supported by the optic, intermediate and deep layers, respectively.
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