Clarissa J. Whitmire

The paper identifies bidirectional thermoreceptors in mice that respond to both cool and warm temperatures, revealing their role in encoding innocuous thermal sensations.

This study identifies distinct temperature representations in the somatosensory thalamus of mice, showing differences in cellular encoding and cortical output targets.

The paper maps brain-wide connectivity of mouse thermosensory cortices, showing parallel input pathways and overlapping output regions for S1 and pIC.

The paper investigates how thalamic firing states affect timing precision in the thalamocortical circuit, finding that burst spiking reduces cortical timing precision.

The paper develops a statistical framework to infer monosynaptic connectivity in vivo using extracellular recordings from rodent thalamocortical pathways.