Inhibitory neurons play a fundamental role in cortical computation and behavior. Recent
technological advances, such as two photon imaging, targeted in vivo recording, and …

Primary sensory cortex has long been believed to play a straightforward role in the initial
processing of sensory information. Yet, the superficial layers of cortex overall are sparsely …

Our sensory receptors are faced with an onslaught of different environmental inputs. Each
sensory event or encounter with an object involves a distinct combination of physical energy …

To better understand how a stream of sensory data is transformed into a percept, we
examined neuronal activity in vibrissal sensory cortex, vS1, together with vibrissal motor …

A fundamental task for the brain is to determine which aspects of the continuous flow of
information is the most relevant in a given behavioral situation. The information flow is …

Sequential temporal ordering and patterning are key features of natural signals, used by the
brain to decode stimuli and perceive them as sensory objects. To explore how cortical …

Rodent whisker input consists of dense microvibration sequences that are often temporally
integrated for perceptual discrimination. Whether primary somatosensory cortex (S1) …

The neocortex constructs an internal representation of the world, but the underlying circuitry
and computational principles remain unclear. Inspired by self-supervised learning …

The world around us is replete with stimuli that unfold over time. When we hear an auditory
stream like music or speech or scan a texture with our fingertip, physical features in the …

The details of auditory response at the subthreshold level in the rodent primary
somatosensory cortex, the barrel cortex, have not been studied extensively, although …