Scott R. Pluta

Bilateral integration in somatosensory cortex is controlled by behavioral relevance

The paper shows that bilateral integration in somatosensory cortex is controlled by behavioral relevance through coordinated neural activity during reward-associated stimuli.

Stimulus selection drives value-modulated somatosensory processing in superior colliculus

The paper shows that superior colliculus (SC) neurons encode stimulus value through spike facilitation and suppression, while somatosensory cortex (S1) maintains a neutral somatotopic map.

A TRANSLAMINAR SPACETIME CODE SUPPORTS TOUCH-EVOKED TRAVELING WAVES

The paper identifies a translaminar spacetime pattern in the sensory cortex that supports touch-evoked traveling waves through experimental and computational analysis.

Internal monitoring of whisking and locomotion in the superior colliculus

This study shows that superior colliculus neurons in mice combine internal estimates of self-motion with external tactile stimuli to enable active touch localization.

Neural mechanisms for the localization of externally generated tactile motion

The paper identifies a neural mechanism in the mouse superior colliculus that distinguishes external from self-generated tactile motion using whisker-specific adaptation and sensorimotor predictions.

Synthesis of higher order feature codes through stimulus-specific supra-linear summation

The paper investigates how cortical circuits integrate sensory inputs to generate sparse, high-dimensional codes for complex features through stimulus-specific supra-linear summation in mice.