Visual representation of different levels of abstraction along the mouse visual hierarchy
Benjie Miao, Peng Jiang, Joshua H. Siegle, Shailaja Akella, Peter Ledochowitsch, Hannah Belski, Severine Durand, Shawn R. Olsen, Xiaoxuan Jia · COSYNE 2023
Sat, Mar 11, 2023
The functional visual hierarchy has been widely studied in primates but was only recently revealed in mice. It is thus unclear whether different areas along the mouse visual hierarchy also represent distinct levels of visual abstraction. To address this question, we carefully designed a visual stimulus set consisting of natural images of diverse objects, synthetic textures, and corresponding noise from a range of families. We acquired and analyzed a novel electrophysiology dataset with ~13,000 neurons recorded across six visual cortical regions along the visual hierarchy in awake mice using Ne