Stimulus dependence of barrel cortex directional selectivity.

Neurons throughout the rat vibrissa somatosensory pathway are sensitive to the angular direction of whisker movement. Could this sensitivity help rats discriminate stimuli? Here we use a simple computational model of cortical neurons to analyze the robustness of directional selectivity. In the model...

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Main Authors: Gabriel D Puccini, Albert Compte, Miguel Maravall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2006-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1762391?pdf=render