Nonlinear Encoding of Tactile Patterns in the Barrel Cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2010-2022

  Webber, Roxanna M ^a   Stanley, Garrett B ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; NONHUMAN; PATTERN STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STEADY STATE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; VIBRISSA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AREA UNDER CURVE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 16544375755     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00906.2003     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Agmon A and Connors BW. Correlation between intrinsic firing patterns and thalamocortical synaptic responses of neurons in mouse barrel cortex. J Neurosci 12: 319-329, 1992.
2. Ahissar E, Sosnik R, Bagdasarian K, and Haidarliu S. Temporal frequency of whisker movement. II. Laminar organization of cortical representations. J Neurophysiol 86: 354-367, 2001.
3. Ahissar E, Sosnik R, and Haidarliu S. Transformation from temporal to rate coding in a somatosensory thalamocortical pathway. Nature 406: 302-305, 2000.
4. Armstrong-James M, Callahan CA, and Friedman MA. Thalamo-cortical processing of vibrissal information in the rat. I. Intracortical origins of surround but not center-receptive fields of layer IV neurons in the rat S1 barrel field cortex. J Comp Neurol 303: 193-210, 1991.
5. Barbaresi P, Spreafico, R, Frassoni C, and Rustioni A. GABAergic neurons are present in the dorsal column nuclei but not in the ventroposterior complex of rats. Brain Res 382: 305-326, 1986.
6. Brumberg JC, Pinto DJ, and Simons DJ. Spatial gradients and inhibitory summation in the rat whisker barrel system. J Neurophysiol 76: 130-140, 1996.
7. Carvell GE and Simons DJ. Membrane potential changes in rat SmI cortical neurons evoked by controlled stimulation of mystacial vibrissae. Brain Res 448: 186-191, 1988.
8. Carvell GE and Simons DS. Biometric analysis of vibrissal tactile discrimination in the rat. J Neurosci 10: 2638-2648, 1990.
9. Castro-Alamancos MA. Different temporal processing of sensory inputs in the rat thalamus during quiescent and information processing states in-vivo. J Physiol 539: 567-578, 2002a.
10. Castro-Alamancos MA. Properties of primary sensory (lemniscal) synapses in the ventrobasal thalamus and the relay of high-frequency sensory inputs. J Neurophysiol 87: 946-953, 2002b.
11. Castro-Alamancos MA and Oldford E. Cortical sensory suppression during arousal is due to the activity-dependent depression of thalamocortical synapses. J Physiol 541: 319-331, 2002.
12. Chung S, Li X, and Nelson SB. Short-term depression at thalamocortical synapses contributes to rapid adaptation of cortical sensory responses in vivo. Neuron 34: 437-446, 2002.
13. Fanselow EE and Nicolelis MAL. Behavioral modulation of tactile response in the rat somatosensory system. J Neurosci 19: 7603-7616, 1999.
14. Garabedian CE, Jones SR, Merzenich MM, Dale A, and Moore CI. Band-pass properties of rat SI neurons. J Neurophysiol 90: 1379-1391, 2003.
15. Guic-Robles E, Valdivieso C, and Guajardo G. Rats can learn a roughness discrimination using only their vibrissal system. Behav Brain Res 31: 285-289, 1989.
16. Hartmann M, Johnson N, Towal R, and Assad C. Mechanical characteristics of rat vibrissae: resonant frequencies and damping in isolated whiskers and in the awake behaving animal. J Neurosci 23: 6510-6519, 2003.
17. Hellweg FC, Schultz W, and Creutzfeldt OD. Extracellular and intracellular recordings from cat's cortical whisker projection area: thalamocortical response transformation. J Neurophysiol 40: 463-479, 1977.
18. Higley MJ and Contreras D. Nonlinear integration of sensory responses in the rat barrel cortex: an intracellular study in vivo. J Neurosci 23: 10190-10200, 2003.
19. Kyriazi HT, Carvell GE, Brumberg JC, and Simons DJ. Quantitative effects of gaba and bicuculline methiodide on receptive field properties of neurons in real and simulated whisker barrels. J Neurophysiol 75: 547-560, 1996.
20. Kyriazi HT, Carvell GE, and Simons DJ. OFF response transformations in the whisker/barrel system. J Neurophysiol 72: 392-401, 1994.
21. Kyriazi HT and Simons DJ. Thalamocortical response transformations in simulated whisker barrels. J Neurosci 13: 1601-1615, 1993.
22. Laskin SE and Spencer WA. Cutaneous masking. II. Geometry of excitatory and inhibitory receptive fields of single units in somatosensory cortex of the cat. J Neurophysiol 42: 1061-1082, 1979.
23. Lee SM, Friedberg MH, and Ebner FF. The role of GABA-mediated inhibition in the rat ventral posterior medial thalamus. II. Differential effects of GABAa and GABAb receptor antagonists on responses of VPM neurons. J Neurosci 71: 1716-1726, 1994.
24. Lewicki MS. A review of methods for spike sorting: the detection and classification of neural action potentials. Netw Comput Neural Syst 9: R53-R78, 1998.
25. Marmarelis PZ and Marmarelis VZ. Analysis of Physiological Systems: The White-Noise Approach. New York: Plenum Press, 1978.
26. Moore CI and Nelson SB. Spatio-temporal subthreshold receptive fields in the vibrissa representation of rat primary somatosensory cortex. J Neurophysiol 80: 2882-2892, 1998.
27. Mountcastle VB, Davies PW, and Berman AL. Response properties of neurons of cat's somatic sensory cortex to peripheral stimuli. J Neurophysiol 20: 374-407, 1957.
28. Neimark M, Andermann M, Hopfield J, and Moore C. Vibrissa resonance as a transduction mechanism for tactile encoding. J Neurosci 23: 6499-6509, 2003.
29. Ogata K. System Dynamics. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1978.
30. Paxinos G and Watson C. The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates (4th ed.). San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1998.
31. Pinto DJ, Brumberg JC, and Simons DJ. Circuit dynamics and coding strategies in rodent somatosensory cortex. J Neurophysiol 83: 1158-1166, 2000.
32. Pinto DJ, Brumberg JC, Simons DJ, and Ermentrout GB. A quantitative population model of whisker barrels: re-examining the Wilson-Cowan equations. J Comput Neurosci 3: 247-264, 1996.
33. Simons DJ. Response properties of vibrissa units in the rat SI somatosensory neocortex. J Neurophysiol 41: 798-820, 1978.
34. Simons DJ. Multi-whisker stimulation and its effects on vibrissa units in rat Sm1 barrel cortex. Brain Res 276: 178-182, 1983.
35. Simons DJ. Temporal and spatial integration in the rat SI vibrissa cortex. J Neurophysiol 54: 615-635, 1985.
36. Simons DJ and Carvell GE. Thalamocortical response transformation in the rat vibrissa/barrel system. J Neurophysiol 61: 311-330, 1989.
37. Stanley GB and Webber RM. A point process analysis of sensory encoding. J Comp Neurosci 15: 321-333, 2003.
38. Volterra V. Theory of Functionals and of Integral and Integro-Differential Equations. New York: Dover Publications, 1959.
39. Welker C. Receptive fields of barrels in the somatosensory neocortex of the rat. J Comp Neurol 166: 173-190, 1976.
40. Woolsey TA and van der Loos H. The structural organization of layer IV in the somatosensory region (SI) of mouse cerebral cortex. Brain Res 17: 205-242, 1970.
41. Zhu JJ and Connors BW. Intrinsic firing patterns and whisker-evoked synaptic responses of neurons in the rat barrel cortex. J Neurophysiol 81: 1171-1183, 1999.