期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 29, 期 8, 页码 2355-2370出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3869-08.2009
关键词
visual cortex; sparse coding; natural scenes; ferret; V1; temporal coding
资金
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) (United Kingdom)
- MRC [G9900989] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G9900989] Funding Source: researchfish
Various arguments suggest that neuronal coding of natural sensory stimuli should be sparse (i.e., individual neurons should respond rarely but should respond reliably). We examined sparseness of visual cortical neurons in anesthetized ferret to flashed natural scenes. Response behavior differed widely between neurons. The median firing rate of 4.1 impulses per second was slightly higher than predicted from consideration of metabolic load. Thirteen percent of neurons (12 of 89) responded to < 5% of the images, but one-half responded to > 25% of images. Multivariate analysis of the range of sparseness values showed that 67% of the variance was accounted for by differing response patterns to moving gratings. Repeat presentation of images showed that response variance for natural images exaggerated sparseness measures; variance was scaled with mean response, but with a lower Fano factor than for the responses to moving gratings. This response variability and the soft sparse responses (Rehn and Sommer, 2007) raise the question of what constitutes a reliable neuronal response and imply parallel signaling by multiple neurons. We investigated whether the temporal structure of responses might be reliable enough to give additional information about natural scenes. Poststimulus time histogram shape was similar for strong and weak stimuli, with no systematic change in first-spike latency with stimulus strength. The variance of first-spike latency for repeat presentations of the same image was greater than the latency variance between images. In general, responses to flashed natural scenes do not seem compatible with a sparse encoding in which neurons fire rarely but reliably.
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