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ArticleJournal of neurophysiology2009

Differential response patterns in the si barrel and septal compartments during mechanical whisker stimulation.

Shubhodeep Chakrabarti, Kevin D Alloway

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Article in Journal of neurophysiology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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Shubhodeep ChakrabartiDepartment of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, H109, Hershey Medical Ctr., 500 University Dr., Hershey, PA 17033-2255, USA.
Kevin D Alloway

Funding

Somatosensory Cortical Influences on Subcortical ProcessingR01NS037532 · NINDS · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV HERSHEY MED CTR · PI ALLOWAY, KEVIN DOUGLAS · 1999 to 2010
$2.8M
Functional Organization of Somatosensory CortexR01NS052689 · NINDS · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV HERSHEY MED CTR · PI ALLOWAY, KEVIN DOUGLAS · 2005 to 2007
$591k
Somatosensory Cortical Influences on Subcortical ProcessingR56NS037532 · NINDS · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV HERSHEY MED CTR · PI ALLOWAY, KEVIN DOUGLAS · 2007 to 2007
$327k
NINDS NIH HHS NS-052689NINDS NIH HHS NS-37532
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A growing body of evidence suggests that the barrel and septal regions in layer IV of rat primary somatosensory (SI) cortex may represent separate processing channels. To assess this view, pairs of barrel and septal neurons were recorded simultaneously in the anesthetized rat while a 4x4 array of 16 whiskers was mechanically stimulated at 4, 8, 12, and 16 Hz. Compared with barrel neurons, regular-spiking septal neurons displayed greater increases in response latencies as the frequency of whisker stimulation increased. Cross-correlation analysis indicated that the incidence and strength of neuronal coordination varied with the relative spatial configuration (within vs. across rows) and compartmental location (barrel vs. septa) of the recorded neurons. Barrel and septal neurons were strongly coordinated if both neurons were in close proximity and resided in the same row. Some barrel neurons were weakly coordinated, but only if they resided in the same row. By contrast, the strength of coordination among pairs of septal neurons did not vary with their spatial proximity or their spatial configuration within the arcs and rows of the barrel field. These differential responses provide further support for the view that the barrel and septal regions represent the cortical gateway for processing streams that encode specific aspects of the sensorimotor information associated with whisking behavior.

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Action PotentialsAfferent PathwaysAnimalsBiophysicsMaleNeuronsPhysical StimulationRatsRats, Sprague-DawleySeptum of BrainSomatosensory CortexStatistics as TopicTime FactorsVibrissae

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PMID19535478
PMCPMC2746793

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