Lyes Bachatene

TL;DR: It seems that modification of the cellular property following adaptation is a general phenomenon observed in all mammals in spite of the different organization pattern of the visual cortex.

TL;DR: The data suggest a pre‐eminent role of fluoxetine by inducing and facilitating short‐term plasticity in V1 and neurons which retained their original preferred orientation expressed plasticity by shifting their tuning curves after drug administration mostly towards adapter.

TL;DR: The comparison of A17 and A18 maps pre‐adaptation and post-adaptation showed that variance in shift amplitudes is greater in A18 than A17 for short adaptations, indicating a rapid reconfiguration of functional maps that may spread to many cortical areas.

TL;DR: The results show that after adaptation the recorded cells with both attractive and repulsive shifts display one or the other shape of spike, and the magnitude of shifts is systematically higher for regular spikes, which is attributed to putative pyramidal cells, whereas tuning curves for fast spikes have smaller magnitudes and are evoked by putative interneurons.

TL;DR: It is shown that after applying an adapter away from the tested cells, neurons whose receptive fields were located remotely from the adapted site also exhibit a novel selectivity in spite of the fact that they were not adapted, suggesting that orientation columns transcend anatomy, and are almost strictly functionally dynamic.