Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Primary visual cortex straightens natural video trajectories

  • Olivier J. Hénaff,
  • Yoon Bai,
  • Julie A. Charlton,
  • Ian Nauhaus,
  • Eero P. Simoncelli,
  • Robbe L. T. Goris

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25939-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Many behaviours depend on predictions about the environment. Here the authors find neural populations in primary visual cortex to straighten the temporal trajectories of natural video clips, facilitating the extrapolation of past observations.