Topic: naturalistic visual stimulation

Natural vision involves encoding complex inputs with spatial and temporal variations in luminance and contrast, which vary widely within and across visual scenes. This engages multiple interacting neural circuits that process these features and implement functions like gain control, decorrelation, and contextual prediction. One hallmark of such circuit interactions at the cortical level is that they give rise to fast oscillatory dynamics, which are reflected in the local field potential (LFP). While recent studies in mice have linked oscillations driven by artificial stimuli to specific thalam