Publication Date:
2010-11-27
Description:
Classical studies of mammalian movement control define a prominent role for the primary motor cortex. Investigating the mouse whisker system, we found an additional and equally direct pathway for cortical motor control driven by the primary somatosensory cortex. Whereas activity in primary motor cortex directly evokes exploratory whisker protraction, primary somatosensory cortex directly drives whisker retraction, providing a rapid negative feedback signal for sensorimotor integration. Motor control by sensory cortex suggests the need to reevaluate the functional organization of cortical maps.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Matyas, Ferenc -- Sreenivasan, Varun -- Marbach, Fred -- Wacongne, Catherine -- Barsy, Boglarka -- Mateo, Celine -- Aronoff, Rachel -- Petersen, Carl C H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2010 Nov 26;330(6008):1240-3. doi: 10.1126/science.1195797.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Sensory Processing, Brain Mind Institute, Faculty of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21109671" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Brain Mapping
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Electric Stimulation
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Feedback, Sensory
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred C57BL
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*Motor Activity
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Motor Cortex/physiology
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Neural Pathways/physiology
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Signal Transduction
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Somatosensory Cortex/*physiology
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Vibrissae/*physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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