ReviewFrontiers in systems neuroscience2019
Whisker-Mediated Touch System in Rodents: From Neuron to Behavior.
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- Biased inter-columnar communication and short-term plasticity in mouse barrel cortex.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Orofacial Movements: Individuality and Stereotypy When Mice Move a Single Whisker to Touch.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Disruption in Patterning in the Whisker-to-Barrel Cortex Pathway Alters Behavior.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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- Differential impacts of social isolation and enriched environment on multi-sensory brain-wide functionality and network segregation.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Whisker pad stimulation with different frequencies reveals non-uniform modulation of functional MRI signal across sensory systems in awake rats.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Article
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- Behavioral adaptations after unilateral whisker denervation.Behavioural brain research · 2025Article
- Late-term moderate prenatal alcohol exposure impairs tactile, but not spatial, discrimination in a T-maze continuous performance task in juvenile rats.Behavioural brain research · 2024Article
- Maternal immune activation affects female offspring whisker movements during object exploration in a rat model of neurodevelopmental disorders.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2024Article
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- Somatotopic organization among parallel sensory pathways that promote a grooming sequence ineLife · 2024Article
- Somatotopic organization among parallel sensory pathways that promote a grooming sequence inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
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Abstract
A key question in systems neuroscience is to identify how sensory stimuli are represented in neuronal activity, and how the activity of sensory neurons in turn is "read out" by downstream neurons and give rise to behavior. The choice of a proper model system to address these questions, is therefore a crucial step. Over the past decade, the increasingly powerful array of experimental approaches that has become available in non-primate models (e.g., optogenetics and two-photon imaging) has spurred a renewed interest for the use of rodent models in systems neuroscience research. Here, I introduce the rodent whisker-mediated touch system as a structurally well-established and well-organized model system which, despite its simplicity, gives rise to complex behaviors. This system serves as a behaviorally efficient model system; known as nocturnal animals, along with their olfaction, rodents rely on their whisker-mediated touch system to collect information about their surrounding environment. Moreover, this system represents a well-studied circuitry with a somatotopic organization. At every stage of processing, one can identify anatomical and functional topographic maps of whiskers; "barrelettes" in the brainstem nuclei, "barreloids" in the sensory thalamus, and "barrels" in the cortex. This article provides a brief review on the basic anatomy and function of the whisker system in rodents.
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