Topic: barrels

The vibrissae system in rodents, akin to human hands and fingers, facilitates somatosensory information retrieval from individual whiskers during object exploration and recognition. Similar to the enhanced somatosensation in humans with separated digits, the critical ability of mice to sense objects through multiple whiskers in distinct streams is maintained through the precise somatotopic organization in the Brainstem → Thalamus → Cortex axis. This organization results in the formation of barrels and intervening "spaces" known as septa. Our in-vivo silicon probe recordings, conducted simultan