title: Neurons in cat V1 show significant clustering by degree of tuning.
abstract: Neighboring neurons in cat primary visual cortex (V1) have similar preferred orientation, direction, and spatial frequency. How diverse is their degree of tuning for these properties? To address this, we used single-tetrode recordings to simultaneously isolate multiple cells at single recording sites and record their responses to flashed and drifting gratings of multiple orientations, spatial frequencies, and, for drifting gratings, directions. Orientation tuning width, spatial frequency tuning width, and direction selectivity index (DSI) all showed significant clustering: pairs of neurons recorded at a single site were significantly more similar in each of these properties than pairs of neurons from different recording sites. The strength of the clustering was generally modest. The percent decrease in the median difference between pairs from the same site, relative to pairs from different sites, was as follows: for different measures of orientation tuning width, 29-35% (drifting gratings) or 15-25% (flashed gratings); for DSI, 24%; and for spatial frequency tuning width measured in octaves, 8% (drifting gratings). The clusterings of all of these measures were much weaker than for preferred orientation (68% decrease) but comparable to that seen for preferred spatial frequency in response to drifting gratings (26%). For the above properties, little difference in clustering was seen between simple and complex cells. In studies of spatial frequency tuning to flashed gratings, strong clustering was seen among simple-cell pairs for tuning width (70% decrease) and preferred frequency (71% decrease), whereas no clustering was seen for simple-complex or complex-complex cell pairs.
authors: Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York.
authors: Avi J
authors: AJ
authors: Ziskind
authors: Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York.
authors: Al A
authors: AA
authors: Emondi
authors: Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York.
authors: Andrei V
authors: AV
authors: Kurgansky
authors: Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York.
authors: Sergei P
authors: SP
authors: Rebrik
authors: Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York ken@neurotheory.columbia.edu.
authors: Kenneth D
authors: KD
authors: Miller
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials; D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D014794:Visual Fields / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: clustering; degree of tuning; local circuitry; tuning width; visual cortex
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