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@INBOOK{Krieger:256131,
      author       = {Radnikow, Gabriele and Qi, Guanxiao and Feldmeyer, Dirk},
      editor       = {Krieger, Patrik and Groh, Alexander},
      title        = {{S}ynaptic {M}icrocircuits in the {B}arrel {C}ortex},
      address      = {New York, NY},
      publisher    = {Springer New York},
      reportid     = {FZJ-2015-06140},
      pages        = {59-108},
      year         = {2015},
      comment      = {Sensorimotor Integration in the Whisker System},
      booktitle     = {Sensorimotor Integration in the
                       Whisker System},
      abstract     = {An elementary feature of sensory cortices is thought to be
                      their organisation into functional signal-processing units
                      called ‘cortical columns’. These elementary units
                      process sensory information arriving from peripheral
                      receptors; they are vertically oriented throughout all
                      cortical layers and contain several thousands of excitatory
                      and inhibitory synaptic connections. To understand how
                      sensory signals are transformed into electrical activity in
                      the neocortex it is necessary to elucidate the
                      spatial-temporal dynamics of cortical signal processing and
                      the underlying neurons and synaptic ‘microcircuits’.In
                      the somatosensory barrel cortex there appears to be a
                      structural correlate for the ‘functional’ cortical
                      column. Therefore, it has become an attractive model system
                      to study the synaptic microcircuitry in athe neocortex.
                      Although many synaptic connections in whisker-related
                      cortical ‘columns’ have been characterised over the past
                      years our knowledge is far from complete, in particular with
                      respect to inhibitory connections. In this chapter we will
                      summarise recent data on different excitatory and inhibitory
                      synaptic connections in a whisker-related ‘column’ of
                      the somatosensory cortex and try to outline their function
                      in the neuronal network. This requires an appreciation of
                      the diverse types of excitatory and inhibitory neurons and
                      their function within cortical columns and beyond. When
                      necessary, we will also discuss the synaptic input from and
                      to subcortical structures, in particular the thalamus.
                      However, we will not provide a detailed description of the
                      functional mechanisms of these connections; this is beyond
                      the scope of this chapter.},
      cin          = {INM-2},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-2-20090406},
      pnm          = {571 - Connectivity and Activity (POF3-571)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-571},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)7},
      doi          = {10.1007/978-1-4939-2975-7_4},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/256131},
}