February 23, 1996 - February 23, 2029
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Date:24TuesdayJanuary 2017
Reverse-engineering the sense of touch in mice
More information| Time | 12:30 - 12:30 |
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| Location | Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall |
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| Lecturer | Prof. Samuel Andrew Hires
Dept of Neurobiology
University of Southern California, Los Angeles |
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| Abstract | Show full text abstract about Touch is vital for many human and animal behaviors, but our ...» Touch is vital for many human and animal behaviors, but our understanding of it lags other senses. We have deployed a suite of techniques to dissect mechanisms of touch perception in the mouse, from the biophysics of whisker bending to optogenetic manipulation of specific cortical circuits. I will present our recent work exploring how circuits of primary somatosensory cortex process sensory and motor signals to create a neural representation of tactile features during whisker-based object exploration.
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