Data from: Olfactory modulation of barrel cortex activity during active whisking and passive whisker stimulation
DOI10.5281/zenodo.6397722Zenodo6397722MaRDI QIDQ6699518FDOQ6699518
Dataset published at Zenodo repository.
Brice Bathellier, Evan Harrell, Anthony Renard
Publication date: 25 May 2021
Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Rodents depend on olfaction and touch to meet many of their fundamental needs. The joint significance of these sensory systems is underscored by an intricate coupling between sniffing and whisking. However, the impact of simultaneous olfactory and tactile inputs on sensory representations in the cortex remains elusive. To study these interactions, we recorded large populations of barrel cortex neurons using 2-photon calcium imaging in head-fixed mice during olfactory and tactile stimulation. We find that odors alter barrel cortex activity in at least two ways, first by enhancing whisking, and second by central cross-talk that persists after whisking is abolished by facial nerve sectioning. Odors can either enhance or suppress barrel cortex neuronal responses, and while odor identity can be decoded from population activity, it does not interfere with the tactile representation. Thus, barrel cortex represents olfactory information which, in the absence of learned associations, is coded independently of tactile information.
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