ArticleNature neuroscience2016
On-going computation of whisking phase by mechanoreceptors.
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- STDP and the distribution of preferred phases in the whisker system.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- Continuous, multidimensional coding of 3D complex tactile stimuli by primary sensory neurons of the vibrissal system.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Interactions of Whisking and Touch Signals in the Rat Brainstem.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
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- An elaborate sweep-stick code in rat barrel cortex.Science advances · 2020Article
- Cortical Coding of Whisking Phase during Surface Whisking.Current biology : CB · 2020Article
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- The Sensorimotor Basis of Whisker-Guided Anteroposterior Object Localization in Head-Fixed Mice.Current biology : CB · 2019Article
- Sensorimotor processing in the rodent barrel cortex.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2019Review
- Focal neocortical lesions impair distant neuronal information processing.The Journal of physiology · 2019Article
- Coding of whisker motion across the mouse face.eLife · 2019Article
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Abstract
To attribute spatial meaning to sensory information, the state of the sensory organ must be represented in the nervous system. In the rodent's vibrissal system, the whisking-cycle phase has been identified as a key coordinate, and phase-based representation of touch has been reported in the somatosensory cortex. Where and how phase is extracted in the ascending afferent pathways remains unknown. Using a closed-loop interface in anesthetized rats, we found that whisking phase is already encoded in a frequency- and amplitude-invariant manner by primary vibrissal afferents. We found that, for naturally constrained whisking dynamics, such invariant phase coding could be obtained by tuning each receptor to a restricted kinematic subspace. Invariant phase coding was preserved in the brainstem, where paralemniscal neurons filtered out the slowly evolving offset, whereas lemniscal neurons preserved it. These results demonstrate accurate, perceptually relevant, mechanically based processing at the sensor level.
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