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Sensory coding of limb kinematics in developing primary motor cortex

Ryan M. Glanz, James C. Dooley, Greta Sokoloff, Mark S. Blumberg
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.14.422707
Ryan M. Glanz
1Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
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James C. Dooley
1Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
3DeLTA Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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Greta Sokoloff
1Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
3DeLTA Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
4Iowa Neuroscience Institute, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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Mark S. Blumberg
1Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
2Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52245, USA
3DeLTA Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
4Iowa Neuroscience Institute, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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  • For correspondence: mark-blumberg@uiowa.edu ryan-glanz@uiowa.edu
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Abstract

Primary motor cortex (M1) undergoes protracted development in rodents, functioning initially as a sensory structure. As we reported previously in neonatal rats (Dooley and Blumberg, 2018), self-generated forelimb movements—especially the twitch movements that occur during active sleep—trigger sensory feedback (reafference) that strongly activates M1. Here, we expand our investigation by using a video-based approach to quantify the kinematic features of forelimb movements with sufficient precision to reveal receptive-field properties of individual M1 units. At postnatal day (P) 8, nearly all M1 units were strongly modulated by movement amplitude, but only during active sleep. By P12, the majority of M1 units no longer exhibited amplitude-dependence, regardless of sleepwake state. At both ages, movement direction produced changes in M1 activity, but to a much lesser extent than did movement amplitude. Finally, we observed that population spiking activity in M1 becomes more continuous and decorrelated between P8 and P12. Altogether, these findings reveal that M1 undergoes a sudden transition in its receptive field properties and population-level activity during the second postnatal week. This transition marks the onset of the next stage in M1 development before the emergence of its later-emerging capacity to influence motor outflow.

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The authors have declared no competing interest.

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  • ↵‡ Lead Contact: Mark S. Blumberg

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Sensory coding of limb kinematics in developing primary motor cortex
Ryan M. Glanz, James C. Dooley, Greta Sokoloff, Mark S. Blumberg
bioRxiv 2020.12.14.422707; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.14.422707
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Sensory coding of limb kinematics in developing primary motor cortex
Ryan M. Glanz, James C. Dooley, Greta Sokoloff, Mark S. Blumberg
bioRxiv 2020.12.14.422707; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.14.422707

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