Open AccessBiological variation in the sizes, shapes and locations of visual cortical areas in the mouse
Author(s) -
Jack Waters,
Eric Lee,
Nathalie Gaudreault,
Fiona Griffin,
Jérôme Lecoq,
Cliff Slaughterbeck,
David T. Sullivan,
Colin Farrell,
Jed Perkins,
David Reid,
David Feng,
Nile Graddis,
Marina Garrett,
Yang Li,
Fuhui Long,
Chris Mochizuki,
Kate Roll,
Jun Zhuang,
Carol L. Thompson
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
plos one
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99
H-Index - 332
ISSN - 1932-6203
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pone.0213924
Subject(s) - visual cortex , variation (astronomy) , biology , cortex (anatomy) , pattern recognition (psychology) , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , computer science , physics , astrophysics
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.