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Temporally organized activity in mouse V1 encodes newly sampled visual content during free movement

Natural vision is continuously shaped by an animal's own movements, which determine what enters the visual system and when visual input changes. Gaze shifts are known to initiate a temporally structured sequence of activity in primary visual cortex (V1), but how the visual content sampled by each movement contributes to this sequence has remained unclear. We recorded visual input, eye and head…

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