Barrel cortex function

TL;DR: Perinatal penicillin exposure in mice alters cortical development, leading to abnormal sensory processing, increased neural activity, and delayed maturation of inhibitory interneurons, with lasting behavioral effects persisting into adulthood.

TL;DR: Simple sensory decision-making tasks in rodents are now beginning to reveal the contributions of distinct cell types and brain regions participating in the conversion of sensory information into learned goal-directed motor output.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the global direction preference is spatially organized throughout the barrel cortex at a supra-columnar scale and a majority of barrel-related cortical columns show a direction preference for global motions with an overall preference for caudo-ventral directions.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examine intrinsic properties of three main classes of inhibitory interneurons in the auditory cortex and describe how inhibition shapes the responsiveness of the cortex to sound.

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.