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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Systems Neuroscience

Background:

  • Cortical synapses are predominantly local and excitatory, forming recurrent circuits that may enable computations like amplification and pattern completion.
  • Cortical circuits feature subnetworks with increased connectivity and similar receptive fields, but their function is hard to probe due to intermingled neuronal populations.
  • Understanding the role of recurrent coupling in specific cortical layers is essential for deciphering sensory processing mechanisms.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the function of recurrent coupling in layer 2/3 of the mouse vibrissal somatosensory cortex during active tactile discrimination.
  • To determine how recurrent excitation influences sensory signal amplification within specific cortical subnetworks.
  • To test the sensitivity of amplified subnetworks to targeted neuronal ablation.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a computational neural circuit model of layer 2/3 to simulate recurrent excitation and amplification.
  • Employed optical recordings and targeted photoablation in mouse vibrissal somatosensory cortex.
  • Mapped neuronal selectivity and selectively ablated neurons representing specific tactile inputs.

Main Results:

  • Recurrent excitation amplifies sensory signals specifically within subnetworks characterized by increased connectivity.
  • Model networks with high amplification showed degraded stimulus encoding upon simulated loss of subnetwork members.
  • Experimental ablation of a small proportion of touch-representing neurons markedly reduced responses in the spared touch representation, confirming model predictions.

Conclusions:

  • Recurrence among cortical neurons with similar selectivity drives input-specific signal amplification during behavior.
  • These amplified subnetworks are critical for accurate sensory encoding and are sensitive to targeted perturbations.
  • The findings elucidate a key mechanism for sensory processing and computation in the mammalian cortex.