The Shifting Sands of Cortical Divisions

Kiah Hardcastle; Lisa M Giocomo

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2019.03.015

The Shifting Sands of Cortical Divisions

Neuron. 2019 Apr 3;102(1):8-11. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.03.015.

Authors

Kiah Hardcastle¹, Lisa M Giocomo²

Affiliations

¹ Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
² Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Electronic address: giocomo@stanford.edu.

PMID: 30946829
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.03.015

Abstract

In this issue of Neuron, a new study by Minderer et al. (2019) examines the activity of thousands of cortical neurons during a navigation task and reveals that features of the task encoded by neurons vary smoothly across cortex rather than falling into functionally discrete cortical regions.

Keywords: behavior; cortex; navigation; wide-field imaging.

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Animals
Mice
Neurons*