Neural probe technologies have already had a significant positive effect on our
understanding of the brain by revealing the functioning of networks of biological neurons …

Nanotechnology is the science and engineering concerned with the design, synthesis, and
characterization of materials and devices that have a functional organization in at least 1 …

A major challenge of sensory systems neuroscience is to quantify brain activity underlying
perceptual experiences and to explain this activity as the outcome of elemental neuronal …

Neuronal responses to ongoing stimulation in many systems change over time, or “adapt.”
Despite the ubiquity of adaptation, its effects on the stimulus information carried by neurons …

Rats, using their whiskers, have excellent capabilities in texture discrimination. What is the
representation of texture in rat somatosensory cortex? We hypothesize that as rats “whisk” …

Rats achieve remarkable texture discriminations by sweeping their facial whiskers along
surfaces. This work explores how neurons at two levels of the sensory pathway, trigeminal …

Rats can make extremely fine texture discriminations by “whisking” their vibrissa across the
surface of an object. We have investigated one hypothesis for the neuronal basis of texture …

The study of electrical network systems, integrated with chemical signaling networks, is
becoming a common trend in contemporary biology. Classical techniques are limited to the …

Experiments were carried out to learn about changes in sensory cortical processing
associated with different levels of anaesthesia. Traditionally this question has been …

Rats use their facial vibrissae (“whiskers”) to locate and identify objects. To learn about the
neural coding of contact between whiskers and objects, we investigated the representation …