Rats tactually explore a nearly spherical space field around their heads with their whiskers.
The information sampled by the two sets of whiskers is integrated bilaterally at the cortical …

Noradrenaline is released throughout the forebrain from locus coeruleus (LC) projections in
close temporal proximity to emotional and goal-directed events. To examine interactive …

Noradrenergic locus coeruleus (LC) neurons were recorded in monkeys performing a visual
discrimination task, and a computational model was developed addressing the role of the …

Optogenetically driven manipulation of circuit-specific activity enables causality studies, but
its global brain-wide effect is rarely reported. Here, we applied simultaneous functional …

In order to understand the processing of sensory information in different behavioral
situations we recorded evoked potentials (EP) to stimulation of a single vibrissa in the barrel …

Whisker trimming causes substantial reorganization of neuronal response properties in
barrel cortex. However, little is known about experience-dependent rerouting of sensory …

In the mammalian neocortex, the capacity to dynamically route and coordinate the exchange
of information between areas is a critical feature of cognitive function, enabling processes …

Loss of a sensory input causes the hypersensitivity in other modalities. In addition to cross-
modal plasticity, the sensory cortices without receiving inputs undergo the plastic changes. It …

One of the most relevant questions regarding the function of the nervous system is how
sensory information is represented in populations of cortical neurons. Despite its …

In vitro norepinephrine (NE) induces both short and long-term β-receptor-mediated
potentiation of the perforant path-evoked population spike in the dentate gyrus. NE or locus …