Neocortical areas are believed to be organized into vertical modules, the cortical columns,
and the horizontal layers 1–6. In the somatosensory barrel cortex these columns are defined …

The rodent whisker system is widely used as a model system for investigating sensorimotor
integration, neural mechanisms of complex cognitive tasks, neural development, and …

In vivo whole-cell recordings revealed that during repeated stimulation, synaptic responses
to deflection of facial whiskers rapidly adapt. Extracellular recordings in the somatosensory …

Whole‐cell voltage recordings were obtained from 64 synaptically coupled excitatory layer 4
(L4) spiny neurones and L2/3 pyramidal cells in acute slices of the somatosensory cortex …

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

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 …

Sensory deprivation during a critical period reduces spine motility and disrupts receptive
field structure of layer 2/3 neurons in rat barrel cortex. To determine the locus of plasticity, we …

Sensory information is encoded both in space and in time. Spatial encoding is based on the
identity of activated receptors, while temporal encoding is based on the timing of activation …

We used a juvenile mouse thalamocortical slice preparation with whole cell recording to
investigate synaptic properties of corticothalamic inputs from somatosensory cortex to the …

Previous experimental studies of both cortical barrel and thalamic barreloid neuron
responses in rodent somatosensory cortex have indicated an active role for barrel circuitry in …