Temporal Characteristics of Response Integration Evoked by Multiple Whisker Stimulations in the Barrel Cortex of Rats

• Published in: The Journal of neuroscience Vol. 19; no. 22; pp. 10164 - 10175
• Main Authors: Shimegi, Satoshi, Ichikawa, Takehiko, Akasaki, Takafumi, Sato, Hiromichi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Soc Neuroscience 15.11.1999; Society for Neuroscience
• Subjects: Animals; Cortex (barrel); Electric Stimulation; Electrophysiology - methods; Male; Microelectrodes; Neurons - physiology; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Reaction Time - physiology; Somatosensory Cortex - physiology; vibrissa; Vibrissae - innervation

We investigated the responses of 114 cells in the barrel cortex of rats to describe the temporal characteristics of excitatory interactions among neurons serving two vibrissae. To examine these interactions, the principal whisker and one adjacent whisker in the same row were stimulated simultaneousl...