M. Vestergaard

The cellular representation of temperature across the somatosensory thalamus

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

The cellular coding of temperature in the mammalian cortex

This study identifies cortical neurons in mice that respond to cooling and warming, showing cool representation in primary somatosensory cortex and both cool and warm in posterior insular cortex.

Movement is governed by rotational population dynamics in spinal motor networks

The paper shows that spinal motor networks generate movement through rotational dynamics in neural activity rather than alternating activity, with rotation radius correlating to muscle force.

Decoupling of timescales reveals sparse convergent CPG network in the adult spinal cord

The paper uses synaptic correlation measurements to infer the wiring architecture of a spinal CPG network, finding sparse convergent connectivity or active decorrelation.