Common modular architecture across diverse cortical areas in early development.

ABSTRACT: In order to deal with a complex environment, animals form a diverse range of neural representations that vary across cortical areas, ranging from largely unimodal sensory input to higher-order representations of goals, outcomes, and motivation. The developmental origin of this diversity is currently unclear, as representations could arise through processes that are already area-specific from the earliest developmental stages or alternatively, they could emerge from an initially common functional organization shared across areas. Here, we use spontaneous activity recorded with two-photon and widefield calcium imaging to reveal the functional organization across the early developing cortex in ferrets, a species with a well-characterized columnar organization and modular structure of spontane

SUBMITTER: Powell NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10945769 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature