Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Mouse visual cortex contains a region of enhanced spatial resolution

  • Enny H. van Beest,
  • Sreedeep Mukherjee,
  • Lisa Kirchberger,
  • Ulf H. Schnabel,
  • Chris van der Togt,
  • Rob R. M. Teeuwen,
  • Areg Barsegyan,
  • Arne F. Meyer,
  • Jasper Poort,
  • Pieter R. Roelfsema,
  • Matthew W. Self

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24311-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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The representation of space in mouse visual cortex was considered to be relatively uniform. The authors show that mice have improved visual resolution in a cortical region representing a location in space directly in front and slightly above them, showing that the representation of space in mouse visual cortex is non-uniform.