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Journal Article
A model for the development of binocular congruence in primary visual cortex
2022
Overview
Neurons in primary visual cortex are selective for stimulus orientation, and a neuron’s preferred orientation changes little when the stimulus is switched from one eye to the other. It has recently been shown that monocular orientation preferences are uncorrelated before eye opening; how, then, do they become aligned during visual experience? We aimed to provide a model for this acquired congruence. Our model, which simulates the cat’s visual system, comprises multiple on-centre and off-centre channels from both eyes converging onto neurons in primary visual cortex; development proceeds in two phases via Hebbian plasticity in the geniculocortical synapse. First, cortical drive comes from waves of activity drifting across each retina. The result is orientation tuning that differs between the two eyes. The second phase begins with eye opening: at each visual field location, on-centre cortical inputs from one eye can cancel off-centre inputs from the other eye. Synaptic plasticity reduces the destructive interference by up-regulating inputs from one eye at the expense of its fellow, resulting in binocular congruence of orientation tuning. We also show that orthogonal orientation preferences at the end of the first phase result in ocular dominance, suggesting that ocular dominance is a by-product of binocular congruence.
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Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group,Nature Portfolio
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