The meso-connectomes of mouse, marmoset, and macaque: network organization and the emergence of higher cognition
Cerebral Cortex,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
34(5)
Published: April 9, 2024
The
recent
publications
of
the
inter-areal
connectomes
for
mouse,
marmoset,
and
macaque
cortex
have
allowed
deeper
comparisons
across
rodent
vs.
primate
cortical
organization.
In
general,
these
show
that
mouse
has
very
widespread,
"all-to-all"
connectivity
(i.e.
a
"highly
dense"
connectome
in
graph
theoretical
framework),
while
primates
more
modular
this
review,
we
highlight
relevance
differences
to
function,
including
example
primary
visual
(V1)
which,
is
interconnected
with
all
other
areas,
therefore
sensory
frontal
areas.
We
argue
dense
benefits
multimodal
associations,
at
cost
reduced
functional
segregation.
Conversely,
expanded
cortices
structure,
where
V1
almost
exclusively
cortices,
themselves
organized
relatively
segregated
streams,
hierarchically
higher
areas
such
as
prefrontal
provide
top-down
regulation
specifying
precise
information
working
memory
storage
manipulation.
Increased
complexity
cytoarchitecture,
connectivity,
dendritic
spine
density,
receptor
expression
additionally
reveal
sharper
hierarchical
organization
cortex.
Together,
specializations
permit
separable
deconstruction
selective
reconstruction
representations,
which
essential
cognition.
Language: Английский
Models of working memory
Nicolas Brunel
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Elsevier eBooks,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
Language: Английский
Unifying network model links recency and central tendency biases in working memory
eLife,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
12
Published: Aug. 2, 2023
The
central
tendency
bias,
or
contraction
is
a
phenomenon
where
the
judgment
of
magnitude
items
held
in
working
memory
appears
to
be
biased
toward
average
past
observations.
It
assumed
an
optimal
strategy
by
brain
and
commonly
thought
as
expression
brain's
ability
learn
statistical
structure
sensory
input.
On
other
hand,
recency
biases
such
serial
dependence
are
also
observed
reflect
content
memory.
Recent
results
from
auditory
delayed
comparison
task
rats
suggest
that
both
may
more
related
than
previously
thought:
when
posterior
parietal
cortex
(PPC)
was
silenced,
short-term
were
reduced.
By
proposing
model
circuit
involved
generating
behavior,
we
show
volatile
susceptible
shifting
experience
-
producing
history
naturally
leads
bias.
errors,
occurring
at
level
individual
trials,
sampled
full
distribution
stimuli
not
due
gradual
shift
distribution's
mean.
Our
consistent
with
broad
set
behavioral
findings
provide
predictions
performance
across
different
stimulus
distributions
timings,
delay
intervals,
well
neuronal
dynamics
putative
areas.
Finally,
validate
our
performing
human
psychophysics
experiments
parametric
task.
Language: Английский
Association cortical areas in the mouse contain a large population of fast‐spiking GABAergic neurons that do not express parvalbumin
Erik Justin Courcelles,
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Kasper Kjelsberg,
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Laura Convertino
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et al.
European Journal of Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
59(12), P. 3236 - 3255
Published: April 21, 2024
Abstract
GABAergic
neurons
represent
10–15%
of
the
neuronal
population
cortex
but
exert
a
powerful
control
over
information
flow
in
cortical
circuits.
The
largest
class
neocortex
is
represented
by
parvalbumin‐expressing
fast‐spiking
neurons,
which
provide
somatic
inhibition
to
their
postsynaptic
targets.
Recently,
density
parvalbumin
interneurons
has
been
shown
be
lower
associative
areas
mouse
as
compared
with
sensory
and
motor
areas.
Modelling
work
based
on
these
quantifications
linked
low‐density
specific
computations
cortices.
However,
it
still
unknown
whether
total
association
cortices
smaller
or
another
type
can
compensate
for
low
interneurons.
In
present
study,
we
investigated
hypotheses
using
combination
neuroanatomy,
genetics
neurophysiology.
We
found
that
comparable
primary
areas,
enriched
do
not
express
were
accounted
previous
quantifications.
developed
an
intersectional
viral
strategy
demonstrate
across
regions.
Our
results
offers
new
biological
constrains
refine
current
models
computations.
Language: Английский
A mesoscale connectome-based model of conscious access in the macaque monkey
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Feb. 22, 2022
Abstract
A
growing
body
of
evidence
suggests
that
conscious
perception
a
sensory
stimulus
coincides
with
all-or-none
activity
across
multiple
cortical
areas,
phenomenon
called
‘ignition’.
In
contrast,
the
same
stimulus,
when
undetected,
induces
only
transient
activity.
this
work,
we
report
large-scale
model
macaque
cortex
based
on
recently
quantified
structural
mesoscopic
connectome
data.
We
use
to
simulate
detection
task,
and
demonstrate
how
dynamical
bifurcation
mechanism
produces
ignition-like
events
in
network.
The
predicts
feedforward
excitatory
transmission
is
primarily
mediated
by
fast
AMPA
receptors
ensure
rapid
signal
propagation
from
associative
areas.
greater
proportion
inter-areal
feedback
projections
local
recurrent
excitation
depend
slow
NMDA
receptors,
ignition
distributed
frontoparietal
Our
predicts,
counterintuitively,
fast-responding
areas
contain
higher
ratio
compared
association
show
slow,
sustained
validate
prediction
using
cortex-wide
in-vitro
receptor
autoradiography
Finally,
can
account
for
various
behavioral
physiological
effects
linked
consciousness.
Together,
these
findings
clarify
neurophysiological
mechanisms
access
primate
support
concept
gradients
densities
along
hierarchy
contribute
cognitive
functions.
Language: Английский
Signatures of hierarchical temporal processing in the mouse visual system
PLoS Computational Biology,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
20(8), P. e1012355 - e1012355
Published: Aug. 22, 2024
A
core
challenge
for
the
brain
is
to
process
information
across
various
timescales.
This
could
be
achieved
by
a
hierarchical
organization
of
temporal
processing
through
intrinsic
mechanisms
(e.g.,
recurrent
coupling
or
adaptation),
but
recent
evidence
from
spike
recordings
rodent
visual
system
seems
conflict
with
this
hypothesis.
Here,
we
used
an
optimized
information-theoretic
and
classical
autocorrelation
analysis
show
that
information-
correlation
timescales
spiking
activity
increase
along
anatomical
hierarchy
mouse
under
stimulation,
while
predictability
decreases.
Moreover,
spontaneous
displayed
similar
hierarchy,
whereas
was
stimulus-dependent.
We
reproduce
these
observations
in
basic
network
model
correlated
sensory
input.
Our
findings
suggest
employs
achieve
longer
integration
higher
cortical
areas,
simultaneously
reducing
efficient
neural
code.
Language: Английский
Efficient laminar-distributed interactions and orientation selectivity in the mouse V1 cortical column
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Nov. 5, 2024
Abstract
The
emergence
of
orientation
selectivity
in
the
visual
cortex
is
a
well-known
phenomenon
neuroscience,
but
details
such
and
role
different
cortical
layers
cell
types,
particularly
rodents
which
lack
topographical
organization
orientation-selectivity
(OS)
properties,
are
less
clear.
To
tackle
this
question,
we
use
an
existing
biologically
detailed
model
mouse
V1
column,
constrained
by
connectivity
data
across
between
pyramidal,
PV,
SST
VIP
types.
Using
as
basis,
implemented
activity-dependent
structural
plasticity
induced
stimulation
with
orientated
drifting
gratings,
leading
to
good
match
tuning
properties
pyramidal
cells
experimentally
observed
OS
laminar
distribution,
their
evoked
firing
rate
width.
We
then
employed
mean-field
uncover
co-tuned
subnetworks
signal
propagation
explain
effects
intra-
inter-laminar
coupling
distributions.
Our
plasticity-induced
modified
were
able
both
excitatory
enhancement
through
disynaptic
inhibition.
Overall,
our
work
highlights
importance
clustering
neural
features
for
effective
transmission
circuits.
Language: Английский