Subbarrel Patterns in Somatosensory Cortical Barrels Can Emerge from Local Dynamic Instabilities

Bard Ermentrout; Daniel J. Simons; Peter W. Land

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000537

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Subbarrel Patterns in Somatosensory Cortical Barrels Can Emerge from Local Dynamic Instabilities

Bard Ermentrout ,

* E-mail: bard@pitt.edu

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia, United States of America, Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia, United States of America
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Daniel J. Simons,

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia, United States of America
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Peter W. Land †

† Deceased.

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia, United States of America
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Subbarrel Patterns in Somatosensory Cortical Barrels Can Emerge from Local Dynamic Instabilities

Bard Ermentrout,
Daniel J. Simons,
Peter W. Land

Published: October 16, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000537

About the Authors

Bard Ermentrout

* E-mail: bard@pitt.edu

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia, United States of America, Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia, United States of America

Daniel J. Simons

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia, United States of America

Peter W. Land

† Deceased.

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BE DJS. Performed the experiments: PWL. Analyzed the data: BE DJS PWL. Wrote the paper: BE DJS.

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