The array of whiskers on the snout provides rodents with tactile sensory information relating
to the size, shape and texture of objects in their immediate environment. Rodents can use …

Somatosensory areas containing topographic maps of the body surface are a major feature
of parietal cortex. In primates, parietal cortex contains four somatosensory areas, each with …

In the neocortex, neuronal selectivities for multiple sensorimotor modalities are often
distributed in topographical maps thought to emerge during a restricted period in early …

In this article, we review functional organization in sensory cortical regions—how the cortex
represents the world. We consider four interrelated aspects of cortical organization:(1) the …

Neurons in sensory cortex show stimulus selectivity and sparse population response, even
in cases where no strong functionally specific structure in connectivity can be detected. This …

Researchers have used a very wide range of different experimental and theoretical
approaches to help understand mammalian visual systems. These approaches tend to have …

Our sensory receptors are faced with an onslaught of different environmental inputs. Each
sensory event or encounter with an object involves a distinct combination of physical energy …

Rodents explore their environment with an array of whiskers, inducing complex patterns of
whisker deflections. Cortical neuronal networks can extract global properties of tactile …

S1 somatotopic maps refers to spatial patterns in the functional organization of neuronal
responses in the mammalian primary somatosensory cortex (S1/SI). Here the term …

Sensorimotor integration in the whisker system Page 2 Sensorimotor Integration in the Whisker
System Page 3 Patrik Krieger• Alexander Groh Editors Sensorimotor Integration in the Whisker …