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Published on: January 22, 2018
Biological variation in the sizes, shapes and locations of visual cortical areas in the mouse
Jack Waters1, Eric Lee1, Nathalie Gaudreault1
1Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA, United States of America.
Abstract:
Visual cortex is organized into discrete sub-regions or areas that are arranged into a hierarchy and serves different functions in the processing of visual information. In retinotopic maps of mouse cortex, there appear to be substantial mouse-to-mouse differences in visual area location, size and shape. Here we quantify the biological variation in the size, shape and locations of 11 visual areas in the mouse, after separating biological variation and measurement noise. We find that there is biological variation in the locations and sizes of visual areas.
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