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ArticleScientific reports2018

Sensory representation of an auditory cued tactile stimulus in the posterior parietal cortex of the mouse.

Hemanth Mohan, Yasir Gallero-Salas, Stefano Carta, João Sacramento, Balazs Laurenczy, Lazar T Sumanovski, Christiaan P J de Kock, Fritjof Helmchen, Shankar Sachidhanandam

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 3 institutions in 4 countries.

Hemanth MohanBrain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Yasir Gallero-SalasBrain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Stefano CartaBrain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
João SacramentoDepartment of Physiology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Balazs LaurenczyBrain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-1601-8945
Lazar T SumanovskiBrain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Christiaan P J de KockDepartment of Integrative Neurophysiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Fritjof HelmchenBrain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Shankar SachidhanandamBrain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. sachidhanandam@pyl.unibe.ch.ORCID 0000-0002-9359-6653
University of Zurich · CHUniversity of Bern · CHAmsterdam Neuroscience · NL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sensory association cortices receive diverse inputs with their role in representing and integrating multi-sensory content remaining unclear. Here we examined the neuronal correlates of an auditory-tactile stimulus sequence in the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) using 2-photon calcium imaging in awake mice. We find that neuronal subpopulations in layer 2/3 of PPC reliably represent texture-touch events, in addition to auditory cues that presage the incoming tactile stimulus. Notably, altering the flow of sensory events through omission of the cued texture touch elicited large responses in a subset of neurons hardly responsive to or even inhibited by the tactile stimuli. Hence, PPC neurons were able to discriminate not only tactile stimulus features (i.e., texture graininess) but also between the presence and omission of the texture stimulus. Whereas some of the neurons responsive to texture omission were driven by looming-like auditory sounds others became recruited only with tactile sensory experience. These findings indicate that layer 2/3 neuronal populations in PPC potentially encode correlates of expectancy in addition to auditory and tactile stimuli.

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Acoustic StimulationCuesAnimalsAuditory PerceptionBehavior, AnimalDiscrimination, PsychologicalMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLNeuronsParietal LobeTouch Perception

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PMID29773806
PMCPMC5958066
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