Topic: posterior medial higher order visual area (VISpm)

What information do cortical neurons along the visual hierarchy encode for? The classic view that neural populations in the visual cortex preferentially encode responses to visual stimuli has been strongly challenged by recent experimental studies. For example, a large fraction of variance in V1 responses in rodents can be attributed to behavioral state1, trial-history2, etc. Here, we present a comprehensive experimental and theoretical study demonstrating that the cortical visual hierarchy differentially encodes the temporal context and expectation of visual stimuli. We measured layer-specifi