Variability of visual responses of superior colliculus neurons depends on stimulus velocity

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• dc.contributor.author Mochol, Gabrielaca
• dc.contributor.author Wójcik, Daniel K.ca
• dc.contributor.author Wypych, Marekca
• dc.contributor.author Wróbel, Andrzejca
• dc.contributor.author Waleszczyk, Wioletta J.ca
• dc.date.accessioned 2018-07-25T12:46:34Z
• dc.date.available 2018-07-25T12:46:34Z
• dc.date.issued 2010
• dc.description.abstract Visually responding neurons in the superficial, retinorecipient layers of the cat superior colliculus receive input from two primarily parallel information processing channels, Y and W, which is reflected in their velocity response profiles. We quantified the timedependent variability of responses of these neurons to stimuli moving with different velocities by Fano factor (FF) calculated in discrete time windows. The FF for cells responding to low-velocity stimuli, thus receivingWinputs, increased with the increase in the firing rate. In contrast, the dynamics of activity of the cells responding to fast moving stimuli, processed by Y pathway, correlated negatively with FF whether the response was excitatory or suppressive. These observations were tested against several types of surrogate data. Whereas Poisson description failed to reproduce the variability of all collicular responses, the inclusion of secondary structure to the generating point process recovered most of the observed features of responses to fast moving stimuli. Neither model could reproduce the variability of low-velocity responses, which suggests that, in this case, more complex time dependencies need to be taken into account. Our results indicate that Y and W channels may differ in reliability of responses to visual stimulation. Apart from previously reported morphological and physiological differences of the cells belonging to Y and W channels, this is a new feature distinguishing these two pathways.
• dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by Polish State Committee for Scientific Research Grant 3 P04C 08222 and Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education Grants N401 146 31/3239, N N303 070234, and 46/N-COST/2007/0. We thank Anaida Ghazarian for participation in some experiments.
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• dc.identifier.citation Mochol G, Wójcik DK, Wypych M, Wróbel A, Waleszczyk WJ. Variability of visual responses of superior colliculus neurons depends on stimulus velocity. J Neurosci. 2010;30(9):3199-209. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3250-09.2010
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3250-09.2010
• dc.identifier.issn 0270-6474
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/35264
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Society for Neuroscienceca
• dc.relation.ispartof The Journal of Neuroscience. 2010;30(9):3199-209.
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• dc.title Variability of visual responses of superior colliculus neurons depends on stimulus velocityca
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