Sparse, reliable, and long-term stable representation of periodic whisker deflections in the mouse barrel cortex

NeuroImage

Volumn 115, Issue , 2015, Pages 52-63

  Mayrhofer, Johannes M ^a,c   Haiss, Florent ^a,d,e,f   Helmchen, Fritjof ^b,c   Weber, Bruno ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b University of Zurich Brain Research Institute   (Switzerland)

^c Neuroscience Center Zurich and Division of Neurosurgery   (Switzerland)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barrel field and in vivo calcium imaging; In vivo two photon microscopy; Systems neuroscience; Vibrotactile perception; Whisker somatosensory cortex of mouse; Yellow Cameleon 3.60

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL COMMUNICATION; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; INNERVATION; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TOUCH;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84928994475     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.04.045     Document Type: Article

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