Structured networks support sparse traveling waves in rodent somatosensory cortex [Neuroscience]

Neurons responding to different whiskers are spatially intermixed in the superficial layer 2/3 (L2/3) of the rodent barrel cortex, where a single whisker deflection activates a sparse, distributed neuronal population that spans multiple cortical columns. How the superficial layer of the rodent barrel cortex is organized to support such distributed...

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - May 15, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Samat Moldakarimov, Maxim Bazhenov, Daniel E. Feldman, Terrence J. Sejnowski Tags: Biological Sciences Source Type: research