Multimodal sensory information is represented by a combinatorial code in a sensorimotor system.

ABSTRACT: A ubiquitous feature of the nervous system is the processing of simultaneously arriving sensory inputs from different modalities. Yet, because of the difficulties of monitoring large populations of neurons with the single resolution required to determine their sensory responses, the cellular mechanisms of how populations of neurons encode different sensory modalities often remain enigmatic. We studied multimodal information encoding in a small sensorimotor system of the crustacean stomatogastric nervous system that drives rhythmic motor activity for the processing of food. This system is experimentally advantageous, as it produces a fictive behavioral output in vitro, and distinct sensory modalities can be selectively activated. It has the additional advantage that all sensory information

SUBMITTER: Follmann R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6201955 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature