Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Chromatic micromaps in primary visual cortex

  • Soumya Chatterjee,
  • Kenichi Ohki,
  • R. Clay Reid

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22488-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Stimulus feature maps are found in primary visual cortex of many species. Here the authors show color maps in trichromatic primates containing segregated ensembles of neurons with distinct chromatic signatures that associate with cortical modules known as blobs.