A radial map of multi-whisker correlation selectivity in the rat barrel cortex

Luc Estebanez, Julien Bertherat, Daniel E. Shulz, Laurent Bourdieu and Jean- François Léger ()
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Luc Estebanez: École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, CNRS, Inserm, Institut de Biologie de l'École Normale Supérieure (IBENS)
Julien Bertherat: École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, CNRS, Inserm, Institut de Biologie de l'École Normale Supérieure (IBENS)
Daniel E. Shulz: Unité de Neurosciences, Information et Complexité, UNIC-FRE3693, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Laurent Bourdieu: École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, CNRS, Inserm, Institut de Biologie de l'École Normale Supérieure (IBENS)
Jean- François Léger: École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, CNRS, Inserm, Institut de Biologie de l'École Normale Supérieure (IBENS)

Nature Communications, 2016, vol. 7, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract In the barrel cortex, several features of single-whisker stimuli are organized in functional maps. The barrel cortex also encodes spatio-temporal correlation patterns of multi-whisker inputs, but so far the cortical mapping of neurons tuned to such input statistics is unknown. Here we report that layer 2/3 of the rat barrel cortex contains an additional functional map based on neuronal tuning to correlated versus uncorrelated multi-whisker stimuli: neuron responses to uncorrelated multi-whisker stimulation are strongest above barrel centres, whereas neuron responses to correlated and anti-correlated multi-whisker stimulation peak above the barrel–septal borders, forming rings of multi-whisker synchrony-preferring cells.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13528

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