Bettina Voelcker

The paper shows that in mouse vS1 cortex, broadly tuned touch neurons are more stable over time than narrowly tuned ones, suggesting they are critical for maintaining behavioral stability.

The paper examines how neural activity transforms from layer 4 to layer 2 in primary somatosensory cortex during object localization, finding increased sparsity and reliability in responses.

The paper identifies two distinct TRN subcircuits in the somatosensory system that process different types of sensory signals through specialized synaptic and physiological properties.

The paper investigates how local recurrent circuits in the somatosensory cortex amplify sensory signals through subnetworks with elevated connectivity, showing that targeted ablation of specific neurons disrupts stimulus encoding.