Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

A radial map of multi-whisker correlation selectivity in the rat barrel cortex

  • Luc Estebanez,
  • Julien Bertherat,
  • Daniel E. Shulz,
  • Laurent Bourdieu,
  • Jean- François Léger

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13528
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Barrel cortex contains a functional map of whiskers but how neuronal activity maps multi-whisker inputs has not been studied. Here the authors show that while uncorrelated multi-whisker stimuli activate barrel neurons, correlated multi-whisker inputs activate neurons in a ring at the barrel-septa boundary