ReviewProgress in neurobiology2013
Insights into cortical mechanisms of behavior from microstimulation experiments.
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- Neural population dynamics of direct electrical stimulation of neocortex.Cell reports · 2026Article
- Large-scale electrophysiology at single-spike resolution.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2026Review
- Critical scaling of novelty in the cortex.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Intracortical Microstimulation in Brain-Computer Interfaces: Evoking Perception and Plasticity.Cyborg and bionic systems (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Review
- Brain-computer interfaces as a causal probe for scientific inquiry.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2026Review
- Predicting neural responses to intra- and extra-cranial electric brain stimulation by means of the reciprocity theorem.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Neural population dynamics of direct electrical stimulation of neocortex.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- A spatial code for temporal information is necessary for efficient sensory learning.Science advances · 2025Article
- Predicting the effect of micro-stimulation on macaque prefrontal activity based on spontaneous circuit dynamics.Physical review research · 2024Article
- Why does invasive brain stimulation sometimes improve memory and sometimes impair it?PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Symmetry in Frontal But Not Motor and Somatosensory Cortical Projections.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Coordinated Response Modulations Enable Flexible Use of Visual Information.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Symmetry in frontal but not motor and somatosensory cortical projections.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Perceptography unveils the causal contribution of inferior temporal cortex to visual perception.Nature communications · 2024Article
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- Spatio-temporal activation patterns of neuronal population evoked by optostimulation and the comparison to electrical microstimulation.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Learning in a sensory cortical microstimulation task is associated with elevated representational stability.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Neuronal Spiking Responses to Direct Electrical Microstimulation in the Human Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Neural Plasticity in Sensorimotor Brain-Machine Interfaces.Annual review of biomedical engineering · 2023Review
- Amplified cortical neural responses as animals learn to use novel activity patterns.Current biology : CB · 2023Article
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Abstract
Even the simplest behaviors depend on a large number of neurons that are distributed across many brain regions. Because electrical microstimulation can change the activity of localized subsets of neurons, it has provided valuable evidence that specific neurons contribute to particular behaviors. Here we review what has been learned about cortical function from behavioral studies using microstimulation in animals and humans. Experiments that examine how microstimulation affects the perception of stimuli have shown that the effects of microstimulation are usually highly specific and can be related to the stimuli preferred by neurons at the stimulated site. Experiments that ask subjects to detect cortical microstimulation in the absence of other stimuli have provided further insights. Although subjects typically can detect microstimulation of primary sensory or motor cortex, they are generally unable to detect stimulation of most of cortex without extensive practice. With practice, however, stimulation of any part of cortex can become detected. These training effects suggest that some patterns of cortical activity cannot be readily accessed to guide behavior, but that the adult brain retains enough plasticity to learn to process novel patterns of neuronal activity arising anywhere in cortex.
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