Orientation and direction selectivity of synaptic inputs in visual cortical neurons: a diversity of combinations produces spike tuning.

By Cyril Monier, Frédéric Chavane, Pierre Baudot, Lyle J. Graham, Yves Frégnac. 2003

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience

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GABAA inhibition controls response gain in visual cortex (2011, background): “Intracellular measurements indicate that inhibitory currents are as tuned for orientation as excitatory currents (Anderson et al., 2000; Monier et al., 2003; Mariño et al., 2005), putting in doubt their involvement in establishing selectivity for orientation (Ferster and Miller, 2000).”
The emergence of contrast-invariant orientation tuning in simple cells of cat visual cortex. (2007, background): “Another possible source, at least at the null orientation, is shunting inhibition (Borg-Graham et al., 1998; Monier et al., 2003).”
Efficient codes and balanced networks (2016, background): “Moreover, excitatory and inhibitory currents have much more complex and variable interactions in deep layers of the visual cortex 30,77 .”
How Inhibition Shapes Cortical Activity (2011, unknown): “…same as those generating the strongest inhibition (Figures 2A and 3B; Anderson et al., 2000; Liu et al., 2011; Mariñ o et al., 2005; Martinez et al., 2002; Tan et al., 2004, 2011; Wehr and Zador, 2003; Wilent and Contreras, 2005; Wu et al., 2008; Zhang et al., 2003, but see Monier et al., 2003).”
Disynaptic inhibition between neocortical pyramidal cells mediated by Martinotti cells. (2007, background): “Despite an overwhelming majority of excitatory synaptic connections, the balance between inhibition and excitation is dynamically maintained during cortical activity (Monier et al., 2003; Shu et al., 2003).”
Neural syntax: cell assemblies, synapsembles and readers (2010, unknown): “Excitatory and inhibitory inputs interact in a complex manner to shape the response to On and Off transitions of the stimulus (Borg-Graham et al., 1998) or to affect the tuning properties of the principal cells (Monier et al., 2003; Wilent and Contreras, 2005).”
Generalized integrate-and-fire models of neuronal activity approximate spike trains of a detailed model to a high degree of accuracy. (2004, background): “However, conductance injection is known to produce a suppression of subthreshold membrane voltage fluctuations (Monier et al. 2003) and a reduction of the membrane time constant (Destexhe and Paré 1999; Destexhe et al.”
A second function of gamma-frequency oscillations: a E%-max winner-take-all mechanism selects which cells fire (2009, background): “However, in the case of orientation cells of V1, both the orientation tuning of excitation (measured intracellularly) and the orientation tuning of spiking have been measured (Anderson et al., 2000; Carandini and Ferster, 2000; Monier et al., 2003).”