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” …

We studied phenomena, constraints, rules, and implications of cortical plastic reorganization
produced by input coactivation patterns in primary somatosensory cortex of adult rats …

The performance of neural codes to represent attributes of sensory signals has been
evaluated in the vertebrate peripheral and central nervous system. Here, we determine how …

Stable perception arises from the interaction between sensory inputs and internal activity
fluctuations in cortex. Here we analyzed how different types of activity contribute to cortical …

The degree of synchronized fluctuations in neocortical network activity can vary widely
during alertness. One influential idea that has emerged over the past few decades is that …

Tactile information ascends from the brainstem to the somatosensory cortex via two major
parallel pathways, lemniscal and paralemniscal. In both pathways, and throughout all …

Neuronal responses of sensory cortex are highly variable, and this variability is correlated
across neurons. To assess how variability reflects factors shared across a neuronal …

A fundamental and nearly ubiquitous feature of sensory encoding is that neuronal
responses are strongly influenced by recent experience, or adaptation. Theoretical and …

How do neural populations adapt to the time-varying statistics of sensory input? To
investigate, we measured the activity of neurons in primary visual cortex adapted to different …

How do neural populations adapt to the time-varying statistics of sensory input? We used
two-photon imaging to measure the activity of neurons in mouse primary visual cortex …