Structure and function of thalamocortical input in whisker system

我们发现隔细胞的感受野与丘脑旁核的输入无关，隔细胞的感受野输入来自丘脑皮质背侧的神经元。我们进一步证明，单个丘脑神经元在桶中的终端场具有明显的各向异性，并且丘脑神经元的角度调谐与其相对于体视图的位置或者是相关的，或者是相反的。

We showed that the receptive field of septal cells was independent of paralemniscal inputs, and that septal cells derived their receptive field input from neurons in the dorsal part of the thalamic barreloids. We further showed that the terminal field of single thalamic neurons in a barrel is markedly anisotropic, and that the location of boutons with respect to the somatotopic map is either correlated or anticorrelated with them angular tuning of the thalamic neuron.