Barrel cortex function

TL;DR: A novel pattern of weak, delayed, thalamus-evoked inhibition in layer 2 suggests a longer integration window for incoming sensory information and may facilitate stimulus detection and plasticity in superficial pyramidal neurons.

TL;DR: This review presents different interneuron types and their axonal projection pattern framework in the context of the laminar and columnar organization of the barrel cortex and highlights the most prominent circuit motifs these interneurons are involved in.

TL;DR: Mouse primary somatosensory barrel cortex (wS1) processes whisker sensory information, receiving input from two distinct thalamic nuclei, and excitatory neurons and parvalbumin-expressing inhibitory neurons received the largest EPSPs.

TL;DR: It is shown that Merkel and unidentified slowly adapting afferents in the whisker system of behaving mice respond to both self-motion and active touch, suggesting that proprioception and touch converge at the earliest neural level.

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.