New preprint: Mouse visual cortex contains a region of enhanced spatial resolution

New collaborative work with Pieter Roelfsema’s group at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience:

van Beest EH*, Mukherjee S*, Kirchberger L*, Schnabel UH, van der Togt C, Teeuwen RRM, Barsegyan A, Meyer AF, Poort J, Roelfsema PR*, Self MW*. Mouse visual cortex contains a region of enhanced spatial resolution. SSRN, 2020.

Mice were thought to have a relatively uniform representation of space throughout the visual system, with no strong biases towards any particular region of space. However, we found that mice have a cortical region of increased spatial resolution, and they keep this representation in front of them during a wide range of behaviors.