Sensorimotor processing in the rodent barrel cortex
| Autor: | Carl C.H. Petersen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0301 basic medicine
animal structures media_common.quotation_subject Rodentia Sensory system spatiotemporal dynamics Somatosensory system whisker movements in-vivo projection neurons Article Mice 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine motor cortex Perception Biological neural network medicine Animals Premovement neuronal activity membrane-potential dynamics media_common integumentary system General Neuroscience Whisking in animals Somatosensory Cortex Barrel cortex Rats 030104 developmental biology medicine.anatomical_structure expressing gabaergic neurons Touch Vibrissae Sensorimotor Cortex layer 2/3 Nerve Net Psychology Neuroscience object localization 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Signal Transduction Motor cortex |
| Zdroj: | Nat Rev Neurosci |
| ISSN: | 1471-0048 1471-003X |
| Popis: | Tactile sensory information from facial whiskers provides nocturnal tunnel-dwelling rodents, including mice and rats, with important spatial and textural information about their immediate surroundings. Whiskers are moved back and forth to scan the environment (whisking), and touch signals from each whisker evoke sparse patterns of neuronal activity in whisker-related primary somatosensory cortex (wS1; barrel cortex). Whisking is accompanied by desynchronized brain states and cell-type-specific changes in spontaneous and evoked neuronal activity. Tactile information, including object texture and location, appears to be computed in wS1 through integration of motor and sensory signals. wS1 also directly controls whisker movements and contributes to learned, whisker-dependent, goal-directed behaviours. The cell-type-specific neuronal circuitry in wS1 that contributes to whisker sensory perception is beginning to be defined. The whisker sensorimotor system provides rodents with tactile information about their immediate facial environment. In this Review, Carl Petersen examines the complex neuronal circuits of the whisker-related primary somatosensory cortex and how they contribute to sensorimotor processing. |
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