Stimulus Dependence of Barrel Cortex Directional Selectivity
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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, directional preference emerges from tuning of synaptic conductance amplitude and latency, as in...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000137