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CELL REPORTS
卷 39, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110751
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- National Eye Institute [R01EY011787, K99EY024653]
Spontaneous activity and its relation to habituation in the cerebral cortex are investigated using two-photon calcium imaging in mouse primary visual cortex. The study shows that an increase in spontaneous activity is correlated with the degree of habituation, and increasing spontaneous activity accelerates habituation. The findings suggest that baseline spontaneous activity can gate incoming sensory information to the cortex based on the learned experience of the animal.
The cerebral cortex is spontaneously active, but the function of this ongoing activity remains unclear. To test whether spontaneous activity encodes learned experiences, we measured the response of neuronal populations in mouse primary visual cortex with chronic two-photon calcium imaging during visual habituation to a specific oriented stimulus. We find that, during habituation, spontaneous activity increases in neurons across the full range of orientation selectivity, eventually matching that of evoked levels. This increase in spontaneous activity robustly correlates with the degree of habituation. Moreover, boosting spontaneous activity with two-photon optogenetic stimulation to the levels of visually evoked activity accelerates habituation. Our study shows that cortical spontaneous activity is linked to habituation, and we propose that habituation unfolds by minimizing the difference between spontaneous and stimulus-evoked activity levels. We conclude that baseline spontaneous activity could gate incoming sensory information to the cortex based on the learned experience of the animal.
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