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Spontaneous and evoked activity patterns diverge over development

  1. Lilach Avitan
  2. Zac Pujic
  3. Jan Mölter
  4. Shuyu Zhu
  5. Biao Sun
  6. Geoffrey J Goodhill  Is a corresponding author
  1. The University of Queensland, Australia
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.61942
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  1. Lilach Avitan
  2. Zac Pujic
  3. Jan Mölter
  4. Shuyu Zhu
  5. Biao Sun
  6. Geoffrey J Goodhill
(2021)
Spontaneous and evoked activity patterns diverge over development
eLife 10:e61942.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.61942
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Abstract

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 properties 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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  1. Lilach Avitan

    Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
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  2. Zac Pujic

    Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
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  3. Jan Mölter

    Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
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  4. Shuyu Zhu

    Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, ST LUCIA, Australia
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  5. Biao Sun

    Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
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  6. Geoffrey J Goodhill

    Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
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Australian Research Council (DP170102263)

  • Geoffrey J Goodhill

Australian Research Council (DP180100636)

  • Geoffrey J Goodhill

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Ethics

Animal experimentation: All procedures were performed with approval from The University of Queensland Animal Ethics Committee (QBI/152/16/ARC).

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  1. Tatyana O Sharpee, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, United States

Publication history

  1. Received: August 10, 2020
  2. Accepted: April 7, 2021
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: April 19, 2021 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: April 26, 2021 (version 2)

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© 2021, Avitan et al.

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  1. Lilach Avitan
  2. Zac Pujic
  3. Jan Mölter
  4. Shuyu Zhu
  5. Biao Sun
  6. Geoffrey J Goodhill
(2021)
Spontaneous and evoked activity patterns diverge over development
eLife 10:e61942.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.61942

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