This valuable study combines experiments and theory to investigate the putative role of spontaneous correlated activity in establishing aligned topographic maps of neural activity in higher-order ...

Sensory systems include the parts of the nervous system responsible for processing sensory information ... receptors that sense the sensory stimuli, brain areas involved in sensory perception ...

They also add a surprising new twist in our understanding of how the brain and the body work ... the thalamus (VPL)—a relay station for sensory information before it reaches the somatosensory ...