Optogenetic activation of visual thalamus generates artificial visual percepts
Jing Wang, Hamid Azimi, Yilei Zhao, Mélanie Kaeser, Pilar Vaca Sánchez, Abraham Vázquez‐Guardado, John A. Rogers, Michael Harvey, Gregor Rainer
This study shows that optogenetic stimulation of the lateral geniculate nucleus in tree shrews can generate detectable visual percepts and reveals differences in how thalamic and cortical neurons encode visual stimuli.
eLife · Oct 4, 2023Peer-reviewedNeuroscience