Barrel cortex function

TL;DR: Experimental evidences confirming that minifreezing is a relevant index of association formation between the neutral CS and the and the aversive UCS are reviewed are reviewed.

TL;DR: In this article, the structural composition of the neuropil provides a prominent source by which wiring specificity can emerge in cortical networks, which can result from synapse formation mechanisms that interconnect neurons depending on their activity or genetically defined identity.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors used ex vivo carbocyanine dye (DiI) tracing in paraformaldehyde-fixed newborn mouse brain to investigate axonal projections of neurons in different layers of S1 barrel field (S1Bf), M1, and S2 toward the subplate (SP), a hub layer for sensory information transfer in the immature cortex.

TL;DR: Recent progress is reviewed in understanding of the principles for response organization in the rodent whisker sensory system, which exemplifies fundamental concepts in computation and coding: hierarchical feature selectivity, sparseness, adaptive representations, and population coding.

TL;DR: A summary of the layout of cortical areas associated with vision and with other modalities, a computerized database for storing and representing large amounts of information on connectivity patterns, and the application of these data to the analysis of hierarchical organization of the cerebral cortex are reported on.

TL;DR: Fundamental concepts of nonlinear microscopy are reviewed and conditions relevant for achieving large imaging depths in intact tissue are discussed.

TL;DR: This review focuses on the organizing principles that govern the diversity of inhibitory interneurons and their circuits.

TL;DR: The timing of a sensory input relative to a gamma cycle determined the amplitude and precision of evoked responses and provided the first causal evidence that distinct network activity states can be induced in vivo by cell-type-specific activation.