Although once regarded as a simple sensory relay on the way to the cortex, it is increasingly
apparent that the thalamus has a role in the ongoing moment-by-moment processing of …

The dorsal column nuclei complex (DCN‐complex) includes the dorsal column nuclei (DCN,
referring to the gracile and cuneate nuclei collectively), external cuneate, X, and Z nuclei …

Our tactile perception of external objects depends on skin-object interactions. The
mechanics of contact dictates the existence of fundamental spatiotemporal input features …

Discriminative touch relies on afferent information carried to the central nervous system by
action potentials (spikes) in ensembles of primary afferents bundled in peripheral nerves …

Non‐Technical Summary Stimulation of the human brain with direct current is a simple but
effective neuromodulation technique that is becoming increasingly popular due to its …

Spinal cord injury (SCI) involves large-scale deafferentation of supraspinal structures in the
somatosensory system, producing well-known long-term effects at the thalamo-cortical level …

Receptive fields of neurons in somatosensory area 3b of monkeys are typically described as
restricted to part of a single digit or palm pad. However, such neurons are likely involved in …

Sensory signals reach the cerebral cortex after having made synapses in different relay
stations along the sensory pathway. The flow of sensory information in subcortical relay …

The slow oscillation (SO) generated within the corticothalamic system is composed of active
and silent states. The studies of response variability during active versus silent network …

Computational studies are challenging the intuitive view that neurons with broad tuning
curves are necessarily less discriminative than neurons with sharp tuning curves. In the …