Search Results - "Oram, Tess"
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Context-dependent control of behavior in Drosophila
Published in Current opinion in neurobiology (01-04-2022)“…The representation of contextual information peripheral to a salient stimulus is central to an animal's ability to correctly interpret and flexibly respond to…”
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Anatomically and functionally distinct thalamocortical inputs to primary and secondary mouse whisker somatosensory cortices
Published in Nature communications (03-07-2020)“…Subdivisions of mouse whisker somatosensory thalamus project to cortex in a region-specific and layer-specific manner. However, a clear anatomical dissection…”
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Pathway-, layer- and cell-type-specific thalamic input to mouse barrel cortex
Published in eLife (20-12-2019)“…Mouse primary somatosensory barrel cortex (wS1) processes whisker sensory information, receiving input from two distinct thalamic nuclei. The first-order…”
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Co-coding of head and whisker movements by both VPM and POm thalamic neurons
Published in Nature communications (13-07-2024)“…Rodents continuously move their heads and whiskers in a coordinated manner while perceiving objects through whisker-touch. Studies in head-fixed rodents showed…”
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Tactile modulation of whisking via the brainstem loop: statechart modeling and experimental validation
Published in PloS one (27-11-2013)“…Rats repeatedly sweep their facial whiskers back and forth in order to explore their environment. Such explorative whisking appears to be driven by central…”
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Predictive whisker kinematics reveal context-dependent sensorimotor strategies
Published in PLoS biology (26-05-2020)“…Animals actively move their sensory organs in order to acquire sensory information. Some rodents, such as mice and rats, employ cyclic scanning motions of…”
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Layer 6b Is Driven by Intracortical Long-Range Projection Neurons
Published in Cell reports (Cambridge) (10-03-2020)“…Layer 6b (L6b), the deepest neocortical layer, projects to cortical targets and higher-order thalamus and is the only layer responsive to the wake-promoting…”
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Attention Robustly Gates a Closed-Loop Touch Reflex
Published in Current biology (19-06-2017)“…Rats’ large whiskers (macrovibrissae) are used to explore their nearby environment, typically using repetitive protraction-retraction “whisking” motions that…”
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Thalamic relay or cortico-thalamic processing? Old question, new answers
Published in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. 1991) (01-04-2015)“…What are the functions implemented by neurons in the sensory nuclei of the thalamus? It seems that this question has accompanied cortical and thalamic studies…”
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Coordination of sniffing and whisking depends on the mode of interaction with the environment
Published in Israel journal of ecology & evolution (03-04-2015)“…Smell and touch convey most of the information that nocturnal rodents collect in their natural environments, each via its own complex network of muscles,…”
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Effects of Head Kinematics on the Activity of Pathway-Specific Thalamic Neurons
Published 01-01-2017“…The vibrissal system evolved to function in freely-moving animals that explore and interact with their environment, thus necessitating integrated…”
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