Active filtering of sequences of neural activity by recurrent circuits of sensory cortex
Deveau, C.; Zhou, Z.; LaFosse, P. K.; Deng, Y.; Mirbagheri, S.; Steinmetz, N.; Histed, M. H.
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Recurrent neural networks can generate dynamics, but in sensory cortex it has been unclear if any dynamic processing is supported by the dense recurrent excitatory-excitatory network. Here we show a new role for recurrent connections in mouse visual cortex: they support powerful dynamical computations, but by filtering sequences of input instead of generating sequences. Using two-photon optogenetics, we measure neural responses to natural images and play them back, finding responses are boosted when inputs are played back during the correct movie dynamic context-- when the preceding sequence corresponds to natural vision. This sequence selectivity depends on a network mechanism: earlier input patterns produce responses in other local neurons, which interact with later input patterns. We confirm this mechanism by designing sequences of inputs that are boosted or attenuated by the network. These data suggest recurrent cortical connections perform predictive processing, encoding the statistics of the natural world in input-output transformations.
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