Topic: V1 populations

Stimuli trigger a pattern of activity across neurons in cortex, whose firing rates define a stimulus's representation in a high-dimensional vector space. Learning a visuomotor task can affect the responses of visual cortical neurons, but how and why training modifies population-level representations is unclear. One hypothesis is that representational plasticity in visual cortex facilitates visuomotor associations by downstream motor systems. Learning systems exhibit "inductive biases", meaning they form some stimulus-motor associations more easily than others. An animal's inductive biases pr