ArticleCurrent biology : CB2020
Cortical Coding of Whisking Phase during Surface Whisking.
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- Probabilistic Perceptual Decisions during Navigation Are Driven by a Small Subpopulation of Neurons in a Single Cortical Column of the Primary Somatosensory Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Impairment in the homeostatic recruitment of layer 5/6 neurons following whisker stimulation in Fmr1 KO mice.Neurobiology of disease · 2025Article
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- Interchangeable Role of Motor Cortex and Reafference for the Stable Execution of an Orofacial Action.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
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- STDP and the distribution of preferred phases in the whisker system.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- Interactions of Whisking and Touch Signals in the Rat Brainstem.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- Independent representations of self-motion and object location in barrel cortex output.PLoS biology · 2020Article
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Abstract
In rodent whisker sensation, whisker position signals, including whisking phase, are integrated with touch signals to enable spatially accurate tactile perception, but other functions of phase coding are unclear. We investigate how phase coding affects the neural coding of surface features during surface whisking. In mice performing rough-smooth discrimination, S1 units exhibit much stronger phase tuning during surface whisking than in prior studies of whisking in air. Among putative pyramidal cells, preferred phase tiles phase space, but protraction phases are strongly over-represented. Fast-spiking units are nearly all protraction tuned. This protraction bias increases the coding of stick-slip whisker events during protraction, suggesting that surface features are preferentially encoded during protraction. Correspondingly, protraction-tuned units encode rough-smooth texture better than retraction-tuned units and encode the precise spatial location of surface ridges with higher acuity. This suggests that protraction is the main information-gathering phase for high-resolution surface features, with phase coding organized to support this function.
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