The mammalian brain can form associations between behaviorally relevant stimuli in an
animal's environment. While such learning is thought to primarily involve high-order …

To gain insight into how cortical fields process somatic inputs and ultimately contribute to
complex abilities such as tactile object perception, we examined the pattern of connections …

To investigate when and how spatial attention affects somatosensory processing, event-
related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded in response to mechanical tactile stimuli …

The primary motor cortex is a critical node in the network of brain regions responsible for
voluntary motor behavior. It has been less appreciated, however, that the motor cortex …

The segregation of sensory information into distinct cortical areas is an important
organizational feature of mammalian sensory systems. Here, we provide functional magnetic …

The classical view of cortical information processing is that of a bottom-up process in a
feedforward hierarchy. However, psychophysical, anatomical, and physiological evidence …