Modeling the emergence of whisker direction maps in rat barrel cortex.

Based on measuring responses to rat whiskers as they are mechanically stimulated, one recent study suggests that barrel-related areas in layer 2/3 rat primary somatosensory cortex (S1) contain a pinwheel map of whisker motion directions. Because this map is reminiscent of topographic organization fo...

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Main Authors: Stuart P Wilson, Judith S Law, Ben Mitchinson, Tony J Prescott, James A Bednar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2809738?pdf=render