Luminance invariant encoding in primary visual cortex
O'Shea, R. T.; Nauhaus, I.; Wei, X.-X.; Priebe, N. J.
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The retina maintains sensitivity over a large range of luminance intensities by switching between rod and cone photoreceptors. This luminance adaptation has been shown to alter the receptive fields and interneuronal correlations of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). While these adaptations allow the retina to encode visual information across environmental conditions, they present a challenge to downstream processing areas for which it is important that representations are invariant to light level. We measured the effects of scotopic versus photopic luminance adaptation on thalamic and cortical activity by tracking neuronal populations across light levels. While changes in the output of the retina are evident in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), the representation in primary visual cortex (V1) is largely invariant to the changes in luminance. We show that an invariant V1 code can emerge through the integration of parallel functional pathways at the geniculocortical synapse.
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