TY - JOUR
T1 - Spontaneous and evoked activity patterns diverge over development
AU - Avitan, Lilach
AU - Pujic, Zac
AU - Mölter, Jan
AU - Zhu, Shuyu
AU - Sun, Biao
AU - Goodhill, Geoffrey J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Avitan et al.
PY - 2021/4/19
Y1 - 2021/4/19
N2 - The immature brain is highly spontaneously active. Over development this activity must be integrated with emerging patterns of stimulus-evoked activity, but little is known about how this occurs. Here we investigated this question by recording spontaneous and evoked neural activity in the larval zebrafish tectum from 4 to 15 days post-fertilisation. Correlations within spontaneous and evoked activity epochs were comparable over development, and their neural assemblies refined in similar ways. However, both the similarity between evoked and spontaneous assemblies, and also the geometric distance between spontaneous and evoked patterns, decreased over development. At all stages of development, evoked activity was of higher dimension than spontaneous activity. Thus, spontaneous and evoked activity do not converge over development in this system, and these results do not support the hypothesis that spontaneous activity evolves to form a Bayesian prior for evoked activity.
AB - The immature brain is highly spontaneously active. Over development this activity must be integrated with emerging patterns of stimulus-evoked activity, but little is known about how this occurs. Here we investigated this question by recording spontaneous and evoked neural activity in the larval zebrafish tectum from 4 to 15 days post-fertilisation. Correlations within spontaneous and evoked activity epochs were comparable over development, and their neural assemblies refined in similar ways. However, both the similarity between evoked and spontaneous assemblies, and also the geometric distance between spontaneous and evoked patterns, decreased over development. At all stages of development, evoked activity was of higher dimension than spontaneous activity. Thus, spontaneous and evoked activity do not converge over development in this system, and these results do not support the hypothesis that spontaneous activity evolves to form a Bayesian prior for evoked activity.
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U2 - 10.7554/ELIFE.61942
DO - 10.7554/ELIFE.61942
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C2 - 33871351
AN - SCOPUS:85105343661
SN - 2050-084X
VL - 10
JO - eLife
JF - eLife
M1 - e61942
ER -