Barrel cortex function

TL;DR: This work focuses on the rat whisker system and puts forward the posterior parietal cortex as a potential circuit where sensorimotor integration could occur during active somatosensation.

TL;DR: This chapter provides an overview of in vivo functional imaging techniques that enable the study of spatiotemporal profiles of cortical activity during whisking-based behavior and summarizes recent findings on the cortical representation of passive and active sensation and of task-relevant whisker dynamics.

TL;DR: The role of Perineuronal Nets in Regulating Barrel Cortex Physiology is focused on determining the experience dependent maturation of PNNs in different cortical layers and whether the alterations to neuronal intrinsic properties following sensory deprivation could be explained by PNN reductions.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors performed a single-whisker go/no-go detection task with vibrotactile stimuli of differing intensities and found that behavioral detection probability decreased gradually over the course of each session, which was well explained by a signal detection theory-based model that posits stable psychometric sensitivity and a variable decision criterion updated after each reinforcement, reflecting decreasing motivation.

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.