IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/nature/v451y2008i7174d10.1038_nature06447.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Behavioural report of single neuron stimulation in somatosensory cortex

Author

Listed:
  • Arthur R. Houweling

    (Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience and Humboldt University Berlin, Philippstrasse 13, House 6, 10115 Berlin, Germany
    Erasmus Medical Center, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

  • Michael Brecht

    (Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience and Humboldt University Berlin, Philippstrasse 13, House 6, 10115 Berlin, Germany
    Erasmus Medical Center, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

Abstract

Stimulation of single neurons in somatosensory cortex affects rats' behavioural responses in a detection task, suggesting a sparser cortical code for sensations than previously anticipated.

Suggested Citation

  • Arthur R. Houweling & Michael Brecht, 2008. "Behavioural report of single neuron stimulation in somatosensory cortex," Nature, Nature, vol. 451(7174), pages 65-68, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:451:y:2008:i:7174:d:10.1038_nature06447
    DOI: 10.1038/nature06447
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature06447
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1038/nature06447?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Etay Hay & Sean Hill & Felix Schürmann & Henry Markram & Idan Segev, 2011. "Models of Neocortical Layer 5b Pyramidal Cells Capturing a Wide Range of Dendritic and Perisomatic Active Properties," PLOS Computational Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 7(7), pages 1-18, July.
    2. Lloyd E. Russell & Mehmet Fişek & Zidan Yang & Lynn Pei Tan & Adam M. Packer & Henry W. P. Dalgleish & Selmaan N. Chettih & Christopher D. Harvey & Michael Häusser, 2024. "The influence of cortical activity on perception depends on behavioral state and sensory context," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-17, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:451:y:2008:i:7174:d:10.1038_nature06447. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nature.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.