Bidirectional interfacing with the nervous system enables neuroscience research, diagnosis,
and therapy. This two-way communication allows us to monitor the state of the brain and its …

Surround modulation (SM) is a fundamental property of sensory neurons in many species
and sensory modalities. SM is the ability of stimuli in the surround of a neuron's receptive …

Tactile information is actively acquired and processed in the brain through concerted
interactions between movement and sensation. Somatosensory input is often the result of …

Multichannel recording technologies have revealed travelling waves of neural activity in
multiple sensory, motor and cognitive systems. These waves can be spontaneously …

During the last few decades, neuroscientists have benefited from the emergence of many
powerful functional imaging techniques that cover broad spatial and temporal scales. We …

Optical brain imaging has seen 30 years of intense development, and has grown into a rich
and diverse field. In-vivo imaging using light provides unprecedented sensitivity to functional …

A central question in visual neuroscience is what circuits generate the responses of neurons
in the primary visual cortex (V1). V1 neurons respond best to oriented stimuli of optimal size …

Voltage-sensitive dye imaging resolves the spatiotemporal dynamics of supragranular
subthreshold cortical activity with millisecond temporal resolution and subcolumnar spatial …

Electrode recordings and imaging studies have revealed that localized visual stimuli elicit
waves of activity that travel across primary visual cortex. Traveling waves are present also …

Propagating waves occur in many excitable media and were recently found in neural
systems from retina to neocortex. While propagating waves are clearly present under …