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September 28, 2025Open Access

Encoding and combining naturalistic motion cues in the ferret higher visual cortex

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Single-neuron recordings reveal how visual cortex integrates spatiotemporal features in ferrets, suggesting a dynamic encoding mechanism.

Neuronal responses in the ferret visual cortex dynamically encode motion features, distinguishing orientation and frequency.
Motion features appear in a defined sequence, with orientation and spatial frequency emerging within 120 ms after stimulus onset.
Compound motion clouds indicate a linear pooling model for integrating motion, suggesting simple summation of individual components.
A subset of neurons showed sensitivity to speed changes, highlighting a complex encoding mechanism for motion parsing.

Schaffhauser et al. (2025) studied this question.

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