Neuronal circuits in barrel cortex for whisker sensory perception

JF Staiger, CCH Petersen - Physiological reviews, 2021‏ - journals.physiology.org
The array of whiskers on the snout provides rodents with tactile sensory information relating
to the size, shape and texture of objects in their immediate environment. Rodents can use …

Whisker sensory system–from receptor to decision

ME Diamond, E Arabzadeh - Progress in neurobiology, 2013‏ - Elsevier
One of the great challenges of systems neuroscience is to understand how the neocortex
transforms neuronal representations of the physical characteristics of sensory stimuli into the …

[كتاب][B] Principles of neural coding

RQ Quiroga, S Panzeri - 2013‏ - books.google.com
Understanding how populations of neurons encode information is the challenge faced by
researchers in the field of neural coding. Focusing on the many mysteries and marvels of the …

Tactile perception and working memory in rats and humans

A Fassihi, A Akrami, V Esmaeili… - Proceedings of the …, 2014‏ - National Acad Sciences
Primates can store sensory stimulus parameters in working memory for subsequent
manipulation, but until now, there has been no demonstration of this capacity in rodents …

Spiking irregularity and frequency modulate the behavioral report of single-neuron stimulation

G Doron, M Von Heimendahl, P Schlattmann… - Neuron, 2014‏ - cell.com
The action potential activity of single cortical neurons can evoke measurable sensory effects,
but it is not known how spiking parameters and neuronal subtypes affect the evoked …

Barrel cortex: What is it good for?

MC Stüttgen, C Schwarz - Neuroscience, 2018‏ - Elsevier
The rodent whisker system, with barrel cortex as its most prominent structure, has evolved
into a powerful model system to study sensory processing. However, despite the vast …

Behavioral study of whisker-mediated vibration sensation in rats

M Adibi, ME Diamond… - Proceedings of the …, 2012‏ - National Acad Sciences
Rats use their vibrissal sensory system to collect information about the nearby environment.
They can accurately and rapidly identify object location, shape, and surface texture. Which …

[HTML][HTML] Balance of excitation and inhibition

M Okun, I Lampl - Scholarpedia, 2009‏ - scholarpedia.org
In the context of neurophysiology, balance of excitation and inhibition (E/I balance) refers to
the relative contributions of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs corresponding to some …

What single-cell stimulation has told us about neural coding

G Doron, M Brecht - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2015‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
In recent years, single-cell stimulation experiments have resulted in substantial progress
towards directly linking single-cell activity to movement and sensation. Recent advances in …

Naive Bayes texture classification applied to whisker data from a moving robot

NF Lepora, M Evans, CW Fox… - … Joint Conference on …, 2010‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many rodents use their whiskers to distinguish objects by surface texture. To examine
possible mechanisms for this discrimination, data from an artificial whisker attached to a …