Mouse Visual Cortex - Bryant McGill

# Mouse Visual Cortex **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Type:** Anatomical and experimental domain **Primary sources:** [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]]; [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] ## Definition The **mouse visual cortex** comprises cortical regions that process visual information in the mouse brain. ## Relationships - [[wiki/MICrONS|MICrONS]] reconstructed a multi-area volume containing primary and higher visual areas. - The same tissue was functionally characterized with [[wiki/Calcium Imaging|calcium imaging]] before electron-microscopy reconstruction. - Findings from mouse cortex can inform circuit principles without being automatically transferable to human cortex.  This entry is routed through [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]], [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]], and [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]]. Its source context is developed in [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]], [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]], and [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]]. Status-qualified source edges are preserved in the terminal Research Edges section.  ## Read First in the Wiki  - [[wiki/Connectomics|Connectomics]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Mouse Visual Cortex** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Functional Connectomics Spanning Multiple Areas of Mouse Visual Cortex|Functional Connectomics Spanning Multiple Areas of Mouse Visual Cortex]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Mouse Visual Cortex** within the wider system. - [[wiki/MICrONS|MICrONS]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Mouse Visual Cortex** within the wider system.  ## Related Work in the Corpus  - In [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]], **Host-infrastructure crosswalk** provides the narrative context for **Mouse Visual Cortex**: The remaining cross-links make the boundary conditions explicit. - In [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]], **MICrONS: Function-Structure Registration at Mammalian Scale** provides the narrative context for **Mouse Visual Cortex**: The MICrONS (Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks) program—funded by IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity) and NIH—achieved the critical mammalian-scale bridge with its April 2025 Nature collection…  ## Research Edges  #### Host–residual infrastructure patch — 2026-09-10 **Collections:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] **Canonical source article:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]] **Related acquisition source:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] #### Outgoing typed edges - **HR-0797 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/MICrONS|MICrONS]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Mouse Visual Cortex.md`. #### Incoming typed edges - **HR-0368 — [[wiki/Connectomics|Connectomics]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Connectomics.md`. - **HR-0680 — [[wiki/Functional Connectomics Spanning Multiple Areas of Mouse Visual Cortex|Functional Connectomics Spanning Multiple Areas of Mouse Visual Cortex]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Functional Connectomics Spanning Multiple Areas of Mouse Visual Cortex.md`. - **HR-0748 — [[wiki/MICrONS|MICrONS]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `MICrONS.md`.