Functional organization of visual responses in the octopus optic lobe.

ABSTRACT: Cephalopods are highly visual animals with camera-type eyes, large brains, and a rich repertoire of visually guided behaviors. However, the cephalopod brain evolved independently from that of other highly visual species, such as vertebrates, and therefore the neural circuits that process sensory information are profoundly different. It is largely unknown how their powerful but unique visual system functions, since there have been no direct neural measurements of visual responses in the cephalopod brain. In this study, we used two-photon calcium imaging to record visually evoked responses in the primary visual processing center of the octopus central brain, the optic lobe, to determine how basic features of the visual scene are represented and organized. We found spatially localized recepti

SUBMITTER: Pungor JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9949128 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature