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Stimulus-Selective Response Plasticity in Primary Visual Cortex: Progress and Puzzles
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Montgomery, Daniel P.
Hayden, Dustin J.
Chaloner, Francesca A.
Cooke, Samuel F.
Bear, Mark F.
Date Issued
January 31, 2022
Journal
Frontiers in Neural Circuits
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Frontiers Media SA
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Montgomery, Daniel P., Hayden, Dustin J., Chaloner, Francesca A., Cooke, Samuel F. and Bear, Mark F. 2022. "Stimulus-Selective Response Plasticity in Primary Visual Cortex: Progress and Puzzles." Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 15.
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Abstract
Stimulus-selective response plasticity (SRP) is a robust and lasting modification of primary visual cortex (V1) that occurs in response to exposure to novel visual stimuli. It is readily observed as a pronounced increase in the magnitude of visual evoked potentials (VEPs) recorded in response to phase-reversing grating stimuli in neocortical layer 4. The expression of SRP at the individual neuron level is equally robust, but the qualities vary depending on the neuronal type and how activity is measured. This form of plasticity is highly selective for stimulus features such as stimulus orientation, spatial frequency, and contrast. Several key insights into the significance and underlying mechanisms of SRP have recently been made. First, it occurs concomitantly and shares core mechanisms with behavioral habituation, indicating that SRP reflects the formation of long-term familiarity that can support recognition of innocuous stimuli. Second, SRP does not manifest within a recording session but only emerges after an off-line period of several hours that includes sleep. Third, SRP requires not only canonical molecular mechanisms of Hebbian synaptic plasticity within V1, but also the opposing engagement of two key subclasses of cortical inhibitory neuron: the parvalbumin- and somatostatin-expressing GABAergic interneurons. Fourth, pronounced shifts in the power of cortical oscillations from high frequency (gamma) to low frequency (alpha/beta) oscillations provide respective readouts of the engagement of these inhibitory neuronal subtypes following familiarization. In this article we will discuss the implications of these findings and the outstanding questions that remain to gain a deeper understanding of this striking form of experience-dependent plasticity.
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10.3389/fncir.2021.815554
