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Thalamocortical interactions shape hierarchical neural variability during stimulus perception.

Adrià Tauste Campo, Antonio Zainos, Yuriria Vázquez, Raul Adell Segarra, Manuel Álvarez, Gustavo Deco, Héctor Díaz, Sergio Parra, Ranulfo Romo, Román Rossi-Pool

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Article in iScience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  3. Hierarchical gradients of multiple timescales in the mammalian forebrain.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  4. Hierarchical unimodal processing within the primary somatosensory cortex during a bimodal detection task.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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Adrià Tauste CampoComputational Biology and Complex Systems group, Department of Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Avinguda Dr. Marañón, 44-50, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Antonio ZainosInstituto de Fisiología Celular-Neurociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 04510, Mexico.
Yuriria VázquezInstituto de Fisiología Celular-Neurociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 04510, Mexico.
Raul Adell SegarraComputational Biology and Complex Systems group, Department of Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Avinguda Dr. Marañón, 44-50, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Manuel ÁlvarezInstituto de Fisiología Celular-Neurociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 04510, Mexico.
Gustavo DecoCenter for Brain and Cognition (CBC), Department of Information Technologies and Communications (DTIC), Pompeu Fabra University, Edifici Mercè Rodoreda, Carrer Trias I Fargas 25-27, 08005 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Héctor DíazInstituto de Fisiología Celular-Neurociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 04510, Mexico.
Sergio ParraInstituto de Fisiología Celular-Neurociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 04510, Mexico.
Ranulfo RomoEl Colegio Nacional, Mexico City 06020, Mexico.
Román Rossi-PoolInstituto de Fisiología Celular-Neurociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 04510, Mexico.

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Abstract

The brain is organized hierarchically to process sensory signals. But, how do functional connections within and across areas contribute to this hierarchical order? We addressed this problem in the thalamocortical network, while monkeys detected vibrotactile stimulus. During this task, we quantified neural variability and directed functional connectivity in simultaneously recorded neurons sharing the cutaneous receptive field within and across VPL and areas 3b and 1. Before stimulus onset, VPL and area 3b exhibited similar fast dynamics while area 1 showed slower timescales. During the stimulus presence, inter-trial neural variability increased along the network VPL-3b-1 while VPL established two main feedforward pathways with areas 3b and 1 to process the stimulus. This lower variability of VPL and area 3b was found to regulate feedforward thalamocortical pathways. Instead, intra-cortical interactions were only anticipated by higher intrinsic timescales in area 1. Overall, our results provide evidence of hierarchical functional roles along the thalamocortical network.

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cognitive neuroscienceNeurosciencesensory neuroscience

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PMCPMC11237863

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