Imprinting Modulates Processing of Visual Information in the Visual Wulst of Chicks

Overview

Journal BMC Neurosci

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Neurology

Date 2006 Nov 15

PMID 17101060

Citations 19

Authors

Fumihiko Maekawa

Okiru Komine

Katsushige Sato

Tomoyuki Kanamatsu

Motoaki Uchimura

Kohichi Tanaka

Hiroko Ohki-Hamazaki

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Abstract

Background: Imprinting behavior is one form of learning and memory in precocial birds. With the aim of elucidating of the neural basis for visual imprinting, we focused on visual information processing.

Results: A lesion in the visual wulst, which is similar functionally to the mammalian visual cortex, caused anterograde amnesia in visual imprinting behavior. Since the color of an object was one of the important cues for imprinting, we investigated color information processing in the visual wulst. Intrinsic optical signals from the visual wulst were detected in the early posthatch period and the peak regions of responses to red, green, and blue were spatially organized from the caudal to the nasal regions in dark-reared chicks. This spatial representation of color recognition showed plastic changes, and the response pattern along the antero-posterior axis of the visual wulst altered according to the color the chick was imprinted to.

Conclusion: These results indicate that the thalamofugal pathway is critical for learning the imprinting stimulus and that the visual wulst shows learning-related plasticity and may relay processed visual information to indicate the color of the imprint stimulus to the memory storage region, e.g., the intermediate medial mesopallium.

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