Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Reduction of corpus callosum activity during whisking leads to interhemispheric decorrelation

  • Yael Oran,
  • Yonatan Katz,
  • Michael Sokoletsky,
  • Katayun Cohen-Kashi Malina,
  • Ilan Lampl

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24310-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Interhemispheric correlations are mediated by the corpus callosum, an extensive fiber bundle connecting the cortical hemispheres. The authors show that interhemispheric correlations between the somatosensory cortices of awake mice are reduced during whisking as a result of lower callosal activity.