Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Locomotion modulates specific functional cell types in the mouse visual thalamus

  • Çağatay Aydın,
  • João Couto,
  • Michele Giugliano,
  • Karl Farrow,
  • Vincent Bonin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06780-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Locomotion is known to modulate neuronal firing in both the visual thalamus (LGN) and V1. Here, the authors characterize the LGN modulation in detail and report that neurons with transient ON responses for high spatial frequency stimuli show the strongest gain modulation.