This study uses a new fibre-optic method to record dendritic calcium signals in freely moving animals. The strength of a sensory stimulus is gradually encoded in somatosensory cortex neurons' dendrites, under the control of local inhibitory circuitry. The findings illustrate that the representation of sensory stimuli by cortical neurons cannot be fully described by traditional integrate-and-fire models.
- Masanori Murayama
- Enrique Pérez-Garci
- Matthew E. Larkum
