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Activity in primate visual cortex is minimally driven by spontaneous movements

Bharath C. Talluri, Incheol Kang, Adam Lazere, Katrina R. Quinn, Nicholas Kaliss, Jacob L. Yates, Daniel A. Butts, Hendrikje Nienborg
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.08.507006
Bharath C. Talluri
1Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
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Incheol Kang
1Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
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Adam Lazere
1Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
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Katrina R. Quinn
2Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Nicholas Kaliss
1Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
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Jacob L. Yates
3Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA
4Department of Biology and Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
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Daniel A. Butts
4Department of Biology and Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
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Hendrikje Nienborg
1Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
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  • For correspondence: hendrikje.nienborg@nih.gov
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Abstract

Organisms process sensory information in the context of their own moving bodies, an idea referred to as embodiment. This idea is important for developmental neuroscience, and increasingly plays a role in robotics and systems neuroscience. The mechanisms that support such embodiment are unknown, but a manifestation could be the observation in mice of brain-wide neuromodulation, including in the primary visual cortex, driven by task-irrelevant spontaneous body movements. Here we tested this hypothesis in macaque monkeys, a primate model for human vision, by simultaneously recording visual cortex activity and facial and body movements. Activity in the visual cortex (V1, V2, V3/V3A) was associated with the animals’ own movements, but this modulation was largely explained by the impact of the movements on the retinal image. These results suggest that embodiment in primate vision may be realized by input provided by the eyes themselves.

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Activity in primate visual cortex is minimally driven by spontaneous movements
Bharath C. Talluri, Incheol Kang, Adam Lazere, Katrina R. Quinn, Nicholas Kaliss, Jacob L. Yates, Daniel A. Butts, Hendrikje Nienborg
bioRxiv 2022.09.08.507006; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.08.507006
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Activity in primate visual cortex is minimally driven by spontaneous movements
Bharath C. Talluri, Incheol Kang, Adam Lazere, Katrina R. Quinn, Nicholas Kaliss, Jacob L. Yates, Daniel A. Butts, Hendrikje Nienborg
bioRxiv 2022.09.08.507006; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.08.507006

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