Barrel cortex function

TL;DR: This work reveals sparse and spatially intermingled representations of multiple tactile features in mice expressing GCaMP6s and nuclear red fluorescent proteins during performance of a single whisker object localization task and an encoding model related activity to behavioral variables.

TL;DR: Early spontaneous activity patterns control the formation of developing networks in sensory cortices, and disturbances of these activity patterns may lead to long-lasting neuronal deficits.

TL;DR: The potential for the use of known critical and sensitive periods during vertebrate development to investigate and advance the understanding of the neural bases underlying impairments in these developmental disorders of the nervous system is highlighted.

TL;DR: Making whole-cell recordings in primary somatosensory barrel cortex of behaving mice shows that S1 neurons projecting to primary motor cortex and those projecting to secondary somatoensory cortex have distinct intrinsic membrane properties and exhibit markedly different membrane potential dynamics during behavior.

TL;DR: Two lateral somatosensory areas were identified, each containing a complete representation of the body, and five CO‐dense modules were consistently identified rostral and lateral to the S1 face representation, which are referred to as OM1, OM2, OM3, FM, and HM.

TL;DR: In this paper, an intact in vitro preparation of the immature mouse cerebral cortex was used to show that neurons are functionally coupled in local clusters by propagating network oscillations in the beta frequency range.

TL;DR: It is shown that the receptive field of sePTal cells is independent of paralemniscal inputs, and that septal cells derive their receptive field input from neurons in the dorsal part of the thalamic barreloids.

TL;DR: These findings establish molecular markers as a powerful complement to cytoarchitecture for neocortical layer and cell‐type comparisons across mammals.