Reference:
Iacaruso, M. F., Gasler, I. T., & Hofer, S. B. (2017). Synaptic organization of visual
space in primary visual cortex. Nature, 547(7664), 449.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature23019
Technique:
2P calcium imaging of dendritic spine receptive fields
System:
Mouse visual cortex
Summary:
Offers direct evidence that a visual neuron’s receptive field location and orientation
are built up from a weighted sum of the receptive fields of cells presynaptic to it.
Quote:
“[T]he connectivity between neurons with displaced receptive fields obeys a specific
rule, whereby they connect preferentially when their receptive fields are co-oriented and coaxially aligned.”