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Network Analysis of Corticocortical Connections Reveals Ventral and Dorsal Processing Streams in Mouse Visual Cortex

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Wang, Quanxin, Sporns, Olaf, Burkhalter, Andreas·2012·The Journal of Neuroscience

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Much of the information used for visual perception and visually guided actions is processed in complex networks of connections within the cortex. To understand how this works in the normal brain and to determine the impact of disease, mice are promising models. In primate visual cortex, information is processed in a dorsal stream specialized for visuospatial processing and guided action and a ventral stream for object recognition. Here, we traced the outputs of 10 visual areas and used quantitative graph analytic tools of modern network science to determine, from the projection strengths in 39 cortical targets, the community structure of the network. We found a high density of the cortical graph that exceeded that shown previously in monkey. Each source area showed a unique distribution of projection weights across its targets (i.e., connectivity profile) that was well fit by a lognormal function. Importantly, the community structure was strongly dependent on the location of the source area: outputs from medial/anterior extrastriate areas were more strongly linked to parietal, motor, and limbic cortices, whereas lateral extrastriate areas were preferentially connected to temporal and parahippocampal cortices. These two subnetworks resemble dorsal and ventral cortical streams in primates, demonstrating that the basic layout of cortical networks is conserved across species.

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  • This extends previously reported findings that cortico-cortical connections follow a lognormal distribution in primate and mouse cortex to the entire mouse brain.

    “This extends previously reported findings that cortico-cortical connections follow a lognormal distribution in the primate24,25 and mouse cortex26 to the entire mouse brain.”

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  • The mouse cortex has a very high density of its interareal graph in comparison to the present findings in the larger macaque brain.

    “In this respect, it is notable that the mouse cortex has a very high density of its interareal graph in comparison to the present findings in the larger macaque brain (Wang et al. 2012).”

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Authors
Wang, Q., Sporns, O., & Burkhalter, A.
Affiliations
  • Washington University in St. Louis (US)
  • Indiana University Bloomington (US)
Corresponding author
Burkhalter, Andreas
Venue
The Journal of Neuroscience
Published
2012-03-28
Volume
32
Issue
13
Pages
4386-4399
ISSN
  • 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
  • 1529-2401
OpenAlex
W2022387796
Cited by
410
References
67
Citations by year
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FWCI
10.66
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Digital Commons@Becker (Washington University School of Medicine) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience
  • National Eye Institute (R01EY16184, R01EY020523, R01EY016184)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
Keywords
corticocortical connections, dorsal stream, ventral stream, mouse visual cortex, community structure, lognormal distribution, extrastriate cortex, parietal cortex, temporal cortex, parahippocampal cortex, cross-species conservation, graph theory
MeSH terms
Animals, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex, Female, Iontophoresis, Male, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Neural Pathways, Visual Cortex, Models, Statistical, Mice, Neuronal Tract-Tracers, Neuroanatomical Tract-Tracing Techniques

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