Mapping of Visual Receptive Fields by Tomographic Reconstruction

Autor(en): Pipa, Gordon 
Chen, Zhe
Neuenschwander, Sergio
Lima, Bruss
Brown, Emery N.
Stichwörter: CELLS; Computer Science; Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence; CORTEX; DIRECTION SELECTIVITY; MACAQUE V1; NEURONS; Neurosciences; Neurosciences & Neurology; ORIENTATION; SIZE; TIME-RESCALING THEOREM
Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
Herausgeber: MIT PRESS
Journal: NEURAL COMPUTATION
Volumen: 24
Ausgabe: 10
Startseite: 2543
Seitenende: 2578
Zusammenfassung: 
The moving bar experiment is a classic paradigm for characterizing the receptive field (RF) properties of neurons in primary visual cortex (V1). Current approaches for analyzing neural spiking activity recorded from these experiments do not take into account the point-process nature of these data and the circular geometry of the stimulus presentation. We present a novel analysis approach to mapping V1 receptive fields that combines point-process generalized linear models (PPGLM) with tomographic reconstruction computed by filtered-back projection. We use the method to map the RF sizes and orientations of 251 V1 neurons recorded from two macaque monkeys during a moving bar experiment. Our cross-validated goodness-of-fit analyses show that the PPGLM provides a more accurate characterization of spike train data than analyses based on rate functions computed by the methods of spike-triggered averages or first-order Wiener-Volterra kernel. Our analysis leads to a new definition of RF size as the spatial area over which the spiking activity is significantly greater than baseline activity. Our approach yields larger RF sizes and sharper orientation tuning estimates. The tomographic reconstruction paradigm further suggests an efficient approach to choosing the number of directions and the number of trials per direction in designing moving bar experiments. Our results demonstrate that standard tomographic principles for image reconstruction can be adapted to characterize V1 RFs and that two fundamental properties, size and orientation, may be substantially different from what is currently reported.
ISSN: 08997667
DOI: 10.1162/NECO_a_00334

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