Patrik Krieger

Audiovisual stimuli enhance narrowband gamma activity along the mouse thalamocortical visual circuit

The paper shows that audiovisual stimuli increase narrowband gamma activity in mouse V1, originating from the thalamus, suggesting a new role for the LGN in multisensory integration.

Reducing Merkel cell activity in the whisker follicle disrupts cortical encoding of whisker movement amplitude and velocity

This study shows that reducing Merkel cell activity in whisker follicles disrupts cortical encoding of whisker movement amplitude and velocity by affecting response magnitude and spiking timing, but not response latency.

Chronic silencing of corticothalamic layer 6 pyramidal cells affects cortical excitability and tactile behavior

This study silences L6 pyramidal cells in mouse somatosensory cortex and finds altered cortical activity and compensatory whisking behavior.