authors:
  -
    firstname: 'Florian Alexander'
    lastname: Dehmelt
    affiliation: 'University of Tübingen, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Institute of Neurobiology, 72076 Tübingen, Germany'
    id: 'ORCID:0000-0001-6135-4652'
  -
    firstname: Rebecca
    lastname: Meier
    affiliation: 'University of Tübingen, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Institute of Neurobiology, 72076 Tübingen, Germany'
  -
    firstname: Julian
    lastname: Hinz
    affiliation: 'University of Tübingen, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Institute of Neurobiology, 72076 Tübingen, Germany'
  -
    firstname: Takeshi
    lastname: Yoshimatsu
    affiliation: 'Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, UK'
  -
    firstname: 'Clara A.'
    lastname: Simacek
    affiliation: 'University of Tübingen, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Institute of Neurobiology, 72076 Tübingen, Germany'
  -
    firstname: Kun
    lastname: Wang
    affiliation: 'University of Tübingen, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Institute of Neurobiology, 72076 Tübingen, Germany'
  -
    firstname: Tom
    lastname: Baden
    affiliation: 'Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, UK'
  -
    firstname: 'Aristides B.'
    lastname: Arrenberg
    affiliation: 'University of Tübingen, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Institute of Neurobiology, 72076 Tübingen, Germany'
    id: 'ORCID:0000-0001-8262-7381'
title: 'Gaze stabilisation behaviour is anisotropic across visual field locations in zebrafish'
description: 'Many animals have large visual fields, and sensory circuits may sample those regions of visual space most relevant to behaviours such as gaze stabilisation and hunting. Despite this, relatively small displays are often used in vision neuroscience. To sample stimulus locations across most of the visual field, we built a spherical stimulus arena with 14,848 independently controllable LEDs, measured the optokinetic response gain of immobilised zebrafish larvae, and related behaviour to previously published retinal photoreceptor densities. We measured tuning to steradian stimulus size and spatial frequency, and show it to be independent of visual field position. However, zebrafish react most strongly and consistently to lateral, nearly equatorial stimuli, consistent with previously reported higher spatial densities in the central retina of red, green and blue photoreceptors. Upside-down experiments suggest further extra-retinal processing. Our results demonstrate that motion vision circuits in zebrafish are anisotropic, and preferentially monitor areas with putative behavioural relevance.'
keywords:
  - Neuroscience
  - 'optokinetic response'
  - 'OKR gain'
  - zebrafish
  - 'zebrafish larvae'
  - 'visual stimulus'
  - 'visual field'
  - 'retinal photoreceptors'
  - retina
  - 'stimulus tuning'
  - 'stimulus size'
  - 'temporal frequency'
  - 'spatial frequency'
  - behaviour
  - 'stimulus hardware'
  - spherical
  - asymmetry
  - 'area centralis'
  - yoking
license:
  name: 'Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike)'
  url: 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/'
funding:
  - 'Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) grant EXC307 (CIN – Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience)'
  - 'Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Young Investigator Grant RGY0079'
references:
  -
    id: 'doi:10.1101/754408 '
    reftype: IsSupplementTo
    citation: 'Dehmelt FA, Meier R, Hinz J, Yoshimatsu T, Simacek CA, Wang K, Baden T, Arrenberg AB (2020). Gaze stabilisation behaviour is anisotropic across visual field locations in zebrafish'
  -
    id: 'DOI t.b.d.'
    reftype: IsSupplementTo
    citation: 'Dehmelt FA, Meier R, Hinz J, Yoshimatsu T, Simacek CA, Wang K, Baden T, Arrenberg AB. Gaze stabilisation behaviour is anisotropic across visual field locations in zebrafish (in review)'
resourcetype: Dataset
templateversion: 1.2