The origin of orientation selectivity in the responses of simple cells in cat visual cortex serves
as a model problem for understanding cortical circuitry and computation. The feed-forward …

Cortical inhibitory neurons exhibit remarkable diversity in their morphology, connectivity, and
synaptic properties. Here, we review the function of somatostatin-expressing (SOM) …

Inhibitory interneurons often generate synchronous activity as an emergent property of their
interconnections. To determine the role of electrical synapses in such activity, we …

The modular arrangement of the neocortex is based on the cell minicolumn: a self-contained
ecosystem of neurons and their afferent, efferent, and interneuronal connections. The …

The origin of orientation selectivity in visual cortical responses is a central problem for
understanding cerebral cortical circuitry. In cats, many experiments suggest that orientation …

Excitatory and inhibitory cortical layer IV neurons have distinctive response properties.
Thalamocortical connectivity that may underlie differences was examined using cross …

Isodirectional tuning of adjacent interneurons and pyramidal cells during working memory:
evidence for microcolumnar organization in PFC. Studies on the cellular mechanisms of …

Sensory information, relayed through the thalamus, arrives in the neocortex as excitatory
input, but rapidly induces strong disynaptic inhibition that constrains the cortical flow of …

Individual pyramidal neurons of neocortex show sparse and variable responses to sensory
stimuli in vivo. It has remained unclear how this variability extends to population responses …

Moore, Christopher I. and Sacha B. Nelson. Spatio-temporal subthreshold receptive fields in
the vibrissa representation of rat primary somatosensory cortex. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 2882 …