TY - JOUR TI - Functional cell types in the mouse superior colliculus AU - Li, Ya-tang AU - Meister, Markus A2 - Rieke, Fred A2 - Desplan, Claude A2 - Rieke, Fred VL - 12 PY - 2023 DA - 2023/04/19 SP - e82367 C1 - eLife 2023;12:e82367 DO - 10.7554/eLife.82367 UR - https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.82367 AB - The superior colliculus (SC) represents a major visual processing station in the mammalian brain that receives input from many types of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). How many parallel channels exist in the SC, and what information does each encode? Here, we recorded from mouse superficial SC neurons under a battery of visual stimuli including those used for classification of RGCs. An unsupervised clustering algorithm identified 24 functional types based on their visual responses. They fall into two groups: one that responds similarly to RGCs and another with more diverse and specialized stimulus selectivity. The second group is dominant at greater depths, consistent with a vertical progression of signal processing in the SC. Cells of the same functional type tend to cluster near each other in anatomical space. Compared to the retina, the visual representation in the SC has lower dimensionality, consistent with a sifting process along the visual pathway. KW - vision KW - superior colliculus KW - cell types JF - eLife SN - 2050-084X PB - eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd ER -