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SUBMITTER: Lee KH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7237212 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Kyu Hyun KH Tran Alvita A Turan Zeynep Z Meister Markus M
eLife 20200414
Much of the early visual system is devoted to sifting the visual scene for the few bits of behaviorally relevant information. In the visual cortex of mammals, a hierarchical system of brain areas leads eventually to the selective encoding of important features, like faces and objects. Here, we report that a similar process occurs in the other major visual pathway, the superior colliculus. We investigate the visual response properties of collicular neurons in the awake mouse with large-scale elec ...[more]