Information flow in the rat thalamo-cortical system: spontaneous vs. stimulus-evoked activities

Hirokazo Takahashi’s lab used a NeuroNexus probe to simultaneously target the auditory cortex and thalamus of rats. Their published results in Nature Scientific Reports demonstrate that information flow was dynamic depending on the stimulus processing mode and that thalamo-cortical communication was strengthened during stimulus presentation, while disappeared during spontaneous activity.