The mechanisms underlying the emergence of orientation selectivity in the visual cortex
have been, and continue to be, the subjects of intense scrutiny. Orientation selectivity …

A key challenge in cortical neuroscience is to gain a comprehensive understanding of how
pyramidal neuron heterogeneity across different areas and species underlies the functional …

Functional mapping and microstimulation studies suggest that recovery after stroke damage
can be attributed to surviving brain regions taking on the functional roles of lost tissues …

The organization of primary visual cortex (V1) into functional maps makes individual cells
operate in a variety of contexts. For instance, some neurons lie in regions of fairly …

Understanding commonalities and differences in glutamatergic synaptic signaling is
essential for understanding cortical functional diversity, especially in the highly complex …

Development of orientation maps in ferret and cat primary visual cortex (V1) has been
shown to be stable, in that the earliest measurable maps are similar in form to the eventual …

Recent gustatory studies have provided a growing body of evidence that taste processing is
dynamic and distributed, and the taste system too complex to be adequately described by …

The basic structure of receptive fields and functional maps in primary visual cortex is
established without exposure to normal sensory experience and before the onset of the …

Analysis of the timecourse of the orientation tuning of responses in primary visual cortex (V1)
can provide insight into the circuitry underlying tuning. Several studies have examined the …

Adult primary visual cortex features well demonstrated orientation selectivities. However, the
imposition of a non-preferred stimulus for many minutes (adaptation) or the application of an …