Topic: direction tuning

Behavioural states modulate neural activity in cortical and subcortical sensory areas as early as in the superior colliculus (SC) and the retina. To better understand the purpose of behavioural modulation at these early stages of visual processing, we investigated how locomotion affects various visual tuning properties in distinct functional cell types of the mouse retina and SC. We employed two-photon imaging of calcium activity in retinal axon terminals and neurons of the superficial SC (sSC) while mice were head-fixed and able to run at will on a treadmill. Neural activity was recorded in