PUBLICATION
The Zebrafish Visual System: From Circuits to Behavior
- Authors
- Bollmann, J.H.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-190917-2
- Date
- 2019
- Source
- Annual review of vision science 5: 269-293 (Review)
- Registered Authors
- Bollmann, Johann
- Keywords
- colliculus, motor control, retina, tectum, visual system, zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Behavior, Animal/physiology
- Photic Stimulation
- Retina/physiology
- Retinal Ganglion Cells/physiology
- Superior Colliculi/physiology
- Vision, Ocular/physiology*
- Visual Pathways/physiology*
- Visual Perception/physiology*
- Zebrafish/physiology*
- PubMed
- 31525146 Full text @ Annu Rev Vis Sci
Citation
Bollmann, J.H. (2019) The Zebrafish Visual System: From Circuits to Behavior. Annual review of vision science. 5:269-293.
Abstract
Visual stimuli can evoke complex behavioral responses, but the underlying streams of neural activity in mammalian brains are difficult to follow because of their size. Here, I review the visual system of zebrafish larvae, highlighting where recent experimental evidence has localized the functional steps of visuomotor transformations to specific brain areas. The retina of a larva encodes behaviorally relevant visual information in neural activity distributed across feature-selective ganglion cells such that signals representing distinct stimulus properties arrive in different areas or layers of the brain. Motor centers in the hindbrain encode motor variables that are precisely tuned to behavioral needs within a given stimulus setting. Owing to rapid technological progress, larval zebrafish provide unique opportunities for obtaining a comprehensive understanding of the intermediate processing steps occurring between visual and motor centers, revealing how visuomotor transformations are implemented in a vertebrate brain.
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Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
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