Abstract:
:A prominent characteristic of neurons in the whisker system is their selectivity to the direction in which a whisker is deflected. The aim of this study was to determine how information about whisker direction is encoded at successive levels of the lemniscal pathway. We made extracellular recordings under identical conditions from the trigeminal ganglion, ventro-posterior medial thalamus (VPM), and barrel cortex while varying the direction of whisker deflection. We found a marked increase in the variability of single unit responses along the pathway. To study the consequences of this for information processing, we quantified the responses using mutual information. VPM units conveyed 48% of the mutual information conveyed by ganglion units, and cortical units conveyed 12%. The fraction of neuronal bandwidth used for transmitting direction information decreased from 40% in the ganglion to 24% in VPM and 5% in barrel cortex. To test whether, in cortex, population coding might compensate for this information loss, we made simultaneous recordings. We found that cortical neuron pairs conveyed 2.1 times the mutual information conveyed by single neurons. Overall, these findings indicate a marked transformation from a subcortical neural code based on small numbers of reliable neurons to a cortical code based on populations of unreliable neurons. However, the basic form of the neural code in ganglion, thalamus, and cortex was similar-at each stage, the first poststimulus spike carried the majority of the information.
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J Neurophysioljournal_title
Journal of neurophysiologyauthors
Bale MR,Petersen RSdoi
10.1152/jn.00636.2009subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2009-11-01 00:00:00pages
2771-80issue
5eissn
0022-3077issn
1522-1598pii
00636.2009journal_volume
102pub_type
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