ePoster · Computational Neuroscience
Information flow in the somatosensory system : From Mechanoreceptor to Cortex
Nicolas Rault, Tea Tompos, Tansu Celikel, Fleur Zeldenrust · Bernstein Conference 2024
The tactile system is capable of discerning various textures, the distance to an object, shape, or even the velocity of a moving object. The versatility of this system is due to, at least partially, the heterogeneous population of mechanoreceptors that lies within the skin. In the whisker system this is achieved via three three types of mechanoreceptors (MR) in the whisker follicle: Slowly Adapting type 1 (SA1), Slowly Adapting type 2 (SA2), and Rapidly Adapting (RA) [1]. In this study, we aim to understand the role of these different types of MRs in stimulus representation. We fit Adaptive Ex