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J Neurophysiol (December 1, 2002). 10.1152/jn.00194.2002
Submitted on 15 March 2002
Accepted on 4 September 2002
Department of Neurobiology and Grodetsky Center for Studies of Higher Brain Function, The Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel
Slovin, Hamutal,
Amos Arieli,
Rina Hildesheim, and
Amiram Grinvald.
Long-Term Voltage-Sensitive Dye Imaging Reveals Cortical Dynamics
in Behaving Monkeys. J. Neurophysiol. 88: 3421-3438, 2002. A novel method of chronic optical imaging
based on new voltage-sensitive dyes (VSDs) was developed to
facilitate the explorations of the spatial and temporal patterns
underlying higher cognitive functions in the neocortex of behaving
monkeys. Using this system, we were able to explore cortical dynamics,
with high spatial and temporal resolution, over period of
1 yr from
the same patch of cortex. The visual cortices of trained macaques were
stained one to three times a week, and immediately after each staining session, the monkey started to perform the behavioral task, while the
primary and secondary visual areas (V1 and V2) were imaged with a fast
optical imaging system. Long-term repeated VSD imaging (VSDI) from the
same cortical area did not disrupt the normal cortical architecture as
confirmed repeatedly by optical imaging based on intrinsic signals. The
spatial patterns of functional maps obtained by VSDI were essentially
identical to those obtained from the same patch of cortex by imaging
based on intrinsic signals. On comparing the relative amplitudes of the
evoked signals and differential map obtained using these two different
imaging methodologies, we found that VSDI emphasizes subthreshold
activity more than imaging based on intrinsic signals, that emphasized
more spiking activity. The latency of the VSD-evoked response in V1
ranged from 46 to 68 ms in the different monkeys. The amplitude of the V2 response was only 20
60% of that in V1. As expected from the anatomy, the retinotopic responses to local visual stimuli spread laterally across the cortical surface at a spreading velocity of
0.15
0.19 m/s over a larger area than that expected by the classical
magnification factor, reaching its maximal anisotropic spatial extent
within ~40 ms. We correlated the observed dynamics of cortical
activation patterns with the monkey's saccadic eye movements and found
that due to the slow offset of the cortical response relative to its
onset, there was a short period of simultaneous activation of two
distinct patches of cortex following a saccade to the visual stimulus.
We also found that a saccade to a small stimulus was followed by direct
transient activation of a cortical region in areas of V1 and V2,
located retinotopically within the saccadic trajectory.
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