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SUBMITTER: O'Connor DH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3695000 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature neuroscience 20130602 7
Active sensation requires the convergence of external stimuli with representations of body movements. We used mouse behavior, electrophysiology and optogenetics to dissect the temporal interactions among whisker movement, neural activity and sensation of touch. We photostimulated layer 4 activity in single barrels in a closed loop with whisking. Mimicking touch-related neural activity caused illusory perception of an object at a particular location, but scrambling the timing of the spikes over o ...[more]