Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Stable representation of a naturalistic movie emerges from episodic activity with gain variability

  • Ji Xia,
  • Tyler D. Marks,
  • Michael J. Goard,
  • Ralf Wessel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25437-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Here the authors show that individual neural responses in mouse V1 to a repeated natural movie clip consist of episodic activity which is unstable in gain across weeks. Despite of the gain variability, time in the natural movie is stably represented by population activity in V1.