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Lee S, Carvell GE, Simons DJ., Motor modulation of afferent somatosensory circuits. Nat. Neurosci. 11(12):1430-8 (2008); [Supplementary material]

Kwegyir-Afful EE, Marella S, Simons DJ., Response properties of mouse trigeminal ganglion neurons. Somatosens. Mot. Res. 25(4):209-21 (2008)

Temereanca S, Brown EN, Simons DJ., Rapid changes in thalamic firing synchrony during repetitive whisker stimulation. J. Neurosci. 28(44):11153-64 (2008)

Shoykhet M, Simons DJ., Development of thalamocortical response transformations in the rat whisker-barrel system. J. Neurophysiol. 99(1):356-66 (2008)

Simons DJ, Carvell GE, Kyriazi HT, Bruno RM., Thalamocortical conduction times and stimulus-evoked responses in the rat whisker-to-barrel system. J. Neurophysiol. 98(5):2842-7 (2007)

Lee SH, Land PW, Simons DJ., Layer- and cell-type-specific effects of neonatal whisker-trimming in adult rat barrel cortex. J. Neurophysiol. 97(6):4380-5 (2007)

Fraser G, Hartings JA, Simons DJ., Adaptation of trigeminal ganglion cells to periodic whisker deflections. Somatosens Mot. Res. 23(3-4):111-8 (2006)

Khatri V, Simons DJ., Angularly nonspecific response suppression in rat barrel cortex. Cereb. Cortex 17(3):599-609 (2007)

Kwegyir-Afful EE, Bruno RM, Simons DJ, Keller A., The role of thalamic inputs in surround receptive fields of barrel neurons. J. Neurosci. 25(25):5926-34 (2005)

Shoykhet M, Land PW, Simons DJ, Whisker trimming begun at birth or on postnatal day 12 affects excitatory and inhibitory receptive fields of layer IV barrel neurons. J. Neurophysiol. 94(6):3987-95 (2005)

SooHyun Lee and Daniel J. Simons, Angular tuning and velocity sensitivity in different neuron classes within layer 4 of rat barrel cortex. J. Neurophysiol. 91:223-229 (2004)

Simona Temereanca and Daniel J. Simons, Functional topography of corticothalamic feedback enhances thalamic spatial response tuning in the somatosensory whisker/barrel system. Neuron, 41:639-651 (2004)

Jones, L.M., Lee, S.-H, Trageser, J. C., Simons, D.J. and Keller, A., Precise temporal responses in whisker trigeminal neurons. J. Neurophysiol. 92:665-668 (2004)

Jones, L.M., Depireux, D.A., Simons, D.J. and Keller, A., Robust temporal coding in the trigeminal system. Science 304:1986-1989 (2004)

Pranav Shetty, Michael Shoykhet, and Daniel J. Simons, Whisker plucking alters responses of rat trigeminal ganglion neurons. Somatosens. Mot. Res. 20:233-238 (2003)

Randy M. Bruno, Vivek Khatri, Peter W. Land, and Daniel J. Simons, "Thalamocortical angular tuning domains within individual barrels of rat somatosensory cortex", J. Neurosci. 23:9565-9574 (2003)

Jed A. Hartings, Simona Temereanca, and Daniel J. Simons, "Processing of periodic whisker deflections by neurons in the ventroposterior medial and thalamic reticular nuclei", J. Neurophysiol. 90:3087-3094 (2003)

Michael Shoykhet, Pranav Shetty, and Daniel J. Simons, "Protracted development of responses to whisker deflection in rat trigeminal ganglion neurons", J. Neurophysiol., 90:1432-1437 (2003)

Brandon S. Minnery, Randy M. Bruno, and  Daniel J. Simons, "Response transformation and receptive-field synthesis in the lemniscal trigeminothalamic circuit" , J. Neurophysiol., 90:1556-1570 (2003)

Jed A. Hartings, Simona Temereanca, and Daniel J. Simons, "State-dependent processing of sensory stimuli by thalamic reticular neurons",  J. Neurosci. 23:5264-5271 (2003)

Simona Temereanca, and Daniel J. Simons, "Local field potentials and the encoding of whiskers deflections by population firing synchrony in thalamic barreloids",  J. Neurophysiol. 89:2137-2145 (2003)

David J. Pinto, Jed A. Hartings, Joshua C. Brumberg, and Daniel J. Simons, "Cortical damping: Analysis of thalamocortical response transformations in the rodent barrel cortex", Cerebral Cortex, 13:33-44 (2003)

Brandon S. Minnery and Daniel J. Simons, " Response properties of whisker-associated trigeminothalamic neurons in rat nucleus principalis" , J. Neurophysiol. 89:40-56 (2003)

Randy M. Bruno and Daniel J. Simons, "Feedforward mechanisms of excitatory and inhibitory cortical receptive fields",  J. Neurosci. 22:10966-10975 (2002)

Thomas Prigg, Daniel Goldreich, George E. Carvell, and Daniel J. Simons, "Texture discrimination and unit recordings in the rat whisker/barrel system", Physiol. Behav., 77:671-675 (2002)

M. Kathleen Kelly, George E. Carvell, Jed A. Hartings, and Daniel J. Simons, "Axonal Conduction Properties of Antidromically Identified Neurons in Rat Barrel Cortex", Somatosens. & Mot. Res. 18(3):202-210 (2001)

Kenneth D. Miller, David J. Pinto, and Daniel J. Simons, "Processing in Layer IV of the Neocortical Circuit: New Insights from Visual and Somatosensory Cortex", Current Opinion in Neurobiology 11:488-497 (2001)

Jed A. Hartings, Simona Temereanca, & Daniel J. Simons, "High Responsiveness and Direction Sensitivity of Neurons in the Rat Whisker Thalamic Reticular Nucleus to Vibrissa Deflections",  J. Neurophys. 83:2791-2801 (2000)

Jed A. Hartings & Daniel J. Simons, "Inhibition Suppresses Transmission of Tonic Vibrissa-Evoked Activity in the Rat Ventrobasal Thalamus", J. Neurosci. 20:RC100 (1-5) (2000)

Michael Shoykhet, Donald Doherty, and Daniel J. Simons, "Coding of Deflection Velocity and Amplitude by Whisker Primary Afferent Neurons: Implications for Higher Level Processing", Somatosens. and Mot. Res. 17(2):171-180 (2000)

David J. Pinto, Joshua C. Brumberg, and Daniel J. Simons, "Circuit Dynamics and Coding Strategies in Rodent Somatosensory Cortex", J. Neurophys. 83:1158-1166 (2000)

Daniel Goldreich, Harold Kyriazi, and Daniel J. Simons, "Functional Independence of Layer IV Barrels in Rodent Somatosensory Cortex", J. Neurophys. 82:1311-1316 (1999)

Joshua C. Brumberg, David J. Pinto, and Daniel J. Simons, "Cortical Columnar Processing in the Rat Whisker-to-Barrel System", J. Neurophys. 82:1808-1817 (1999)

M. Kathleen Kelly, George E. Carvell, Judith M. Kodger, and Daniel J. Simons, "Sensory Loss by Selected Whisker Removal Produces Immediate Disinhibition in the Somatosensory Cortex of Behaving Rats", J. Neurosci. 19(20):9117-9125 (1999)

Harold Kyriazi, George E. Carvell, Joshua C. Brumberg, and Daniel J. Simons, Laminar differences in bicuculline methiodide's effects on cortical neurons in the rat whisker/barrel system. Somatosens. Mot. Res., 15: 146-156 (1998)

Jed A. Hartings & Daniel J. Simons, "Thalamic Relay of Afferent Responses to 1- and 12-Hz Whisker Stimulation in the Rat", J. Neurophys. 80:1016-1019 (1998)

Yuste R, Simons D., Barrels in the desert: The Sde Boker Workshop on Neocortical Circuits. Neuron 19(2):231-7 (1997)

Harold Kyriazi, George E. Carvell, Joshua C. Brumberg, and Daniel J. Simons, "Quantitative effects of GABA and bicuculline methiodide on receptive field properties of neurons in real and simulated whisker barrels", J.Neurophysiol., 75: 547-560 (1996)

George E. Carvell and Daniel J. Simons, "Abnormal tactile experience early in life disrupts active touch", J. Neurosci. 15: 2750-2757 (1996)

George E. Carvell and Daniel J. Simons, "Task and subject-related differences in sensorimotor behavior during active touch", Somatosens. Mot. Res. 12(1):1-9 (1995)

Harold Kyriazi, George E. Carvell, and Daniel J. Simons, "OFF response transformations in the whisker/barrel system", J. Neurophysiol., 72:392-401 (1994)

Daniel J. Simons and Peter W. Land, "Neonatal whisker trimming produces greater effects in non-deprived than deprived thalamic barreloids", J. Neurophysiol.,72:1434-1437 (1994)

Harold Kyriazi and Daniel J. Simons, "Thalamocortical response transformations in simulated whisker barrels", J. Neurosci. 13:1601-1615 (1993)

George E. Carvell and Daniel J. Simons, "Biometric analyses of vibrissal tactile discrimination in the rat", J. Neurosci., 10:2638-2648 (1990)

Seth H. Lichtenstein, George E. Carvell, and Daniel J. Simons, "Responses of rat trigeminal ganglion neurons to movements of vibrissae in different directions." Somatosensory and Motor Res., 7:47-65 (1990)

Daniel J. Simons and George E. Carvell, "Thalamocortical response transformation in the rat vibrissa/barrel system", J. Neurophysiol., 61:311-330 (1989)

Daniel J. Simons, "Temporal and spatial integration in the rat SI vibrissa cortex", J. Neurophysiol., 54:615-635 (1985)

Daniel J. Simons, "Response properties of vibrissa units in rat SI somatosensory neocortex", J. Neurophysiol., 41:798-820 (1978)

Finger S, Simons D., Effects of serial lesions of somatosensory cortex and further neodecortication on retention of a rough-smooth discrimination in rats. Exp. Brain Res. 25(2):183-97 (1976)

Simons D, Puretz J, Finger S., Effects of serial lesions of somatosensory cortex and further neodecortication on tactile retention in rats. Exp. Brain Res. 23(4):353-65 (1975)