Topic: forepaw

The mammal brain must dynamically and rapidly adapt to the ever-changing sensory environment. Despite the known importance of neural plasticity in cellular processing, we only have a limited understanding of how this is achieved in vivo. Here, we performed whole-cell patch clamp electrophysiology from layer 2/3 pyramidal neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex in vivo to investigate whether sensory information is dynamically encoded in cortical neurons. First, the plasticity of sensory encoding was tested by repetitive tactile stimulation delivered to the forepaw. Here, sensory encoding wa