Topic: visual abstraction

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