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Voltage-sensitive dye imaging reveals shifting spatiotemporal spread of whisker-induced activity in rat barrel cortex

Lustig BR, Friedman RM, Winberry JE, Ebner FF, Roe AW · J Neurophysiol 2013

In one sentence

The spot of activity from one whisker doesn't stay put: it drifts across cortex in milliseconds, mostly in one direction.

Background concepts

Voltage-Sensitive Dye Imaging (coming soon)Barrel Cortex (coming soon)Receptive Fields