The brain has a never-ending internal activity, whose spatiotemporal evolution interacts with
external inputs to constrain their impact on brain activity and thereby how we perceive them …

The neocortex has a globally encompassing network structure, which for each given input
constrains the possible combinations of neuronal activations across it. Hence, its network …

How does our brain translate sensory information that has been acquired by receptors in our
periphery into information that is relevant for behaviour and decision making? Currently we …

Whereas functional localization historically has been a key concept in neuroscience, direct
neuronal recordings show that input of a particular modality can be recorded well outside its …

Due to continuous state variations in neocortical circuits, individual somatosensory cortex
(SI) neurons in vivo display a variety of intracellular responses to the exact same …

Touch information is central to sensorimotor integration, yet little is known about how cortical
touch and movement representations interact. Touch-and movement-related activity is …

Investigations of the mechanisms of touch perception and decoding has been hampered by
difficulties in achieving invariant patterns of skin sensor activation. To obtain reproducible …

The sense of touch comprises multiple sensory channels that each conveys characteristic
signals during interactions with objects. These neural signals must then be integrated in …

Accumulating evidence suggests that neural interactions are distributed and relate to animal
behavior, but many open questions remain. The neural assembly hypothesis, formulated by …

Whereas, there is data to support that cuneothalamic projections predominantly reach a
topographically confined volume of the rat thalamus, the ventroposterior lateral (VPL) …