Tactile Perception and Learning Lab

Publication list

Journal Articles

Khoshnoodi MA, Motiei-Langroudi R, Omrani M, Diamond ME, and Abdolhossein A (2008) Effect of tactile stimulus frequency on time perception: the role of working memory. Exp. Brain Res. In Press.
von Heimendahl M, Itskov PM, Arabzadeh E, Diamond ME (2007) Neuronal activity in rat barrel cortex underlying texture discrimination. PLoS Biol 5(11): e305. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050305.
Lak A, Arabzadeh E, and Diamond ME (2007) Enhanced response of neurons in rat somatosensory cortex to stimuli containing temporal noise. Cerebral Cortex., xxxx doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhm144
Harris J.A., Arabzadeh E, Fairhall AL, Benito C, and Diamond ME (2006) Factors affecting frequency discrimination of vibrotactile stimuli: Implications for cortical encoding. PLoS ONE 1(1): e100. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000100]
Maravall M, Petersen RS, Fairhall AL, Arabzadeh E, Diamond ME (2007) Shifts in coding properties and maintenance of information transmission during adaptation in barrel cortex, PLoS Biol 5(2): e19
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Arabzadeh E., Panzeri S., and Diamond M.E. (2006) Deciphering the spike train of a sensory neuron: Counts and temporal patterns in the rat whisker pathway. J. Neurosci. 26: 9216-9226.
Kleinfeld D., Ahissar E., and Diamond M.E. (2006) Active sensation: Insights from the rodent vibrissa sensorimotor system. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol., 16: 435-444.
Hipp J., Arabzadeh E., Zorzin E., Conrad J., Kayser C., Diamond M.E. and König P. (2006) Texture signals in whisker vibrations. J. Neurophysiol., 95: 1792-1799.
Arabzadeh E., Zorzin E. and Diamond M.E. (2005) Neuronal Encoding of Texture in the Whisker Sensory Pathway. PLoS Biol. 3(1): e17
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Arabzadeh E., Panzeri S., and Diamond M.E. (2004) Whisker Vibration Information Carried by Rat Barrel Cortex Neurons J. Neurosci. 24: 6011-6020
Erchova I.A., and Diamond M.E. (2004) Rapid fluctuations in rat barrel cortex plasticity. J. Neurosci. 24: 5931-5941
Arabzadeh E., Petersen R.S., and Diamond M.E. (2003) Encoding of whisker vibration by rat barrel cortex neurons: Implications for texture discrimination. J. Neurosci. 23: 9146-9154
Diamond M.E., Petersen R.S., Harris J.A., and Panzeri S. (2003) Investigations into the organization of information in sensory cortex. J. Physiology (Paris) 97: 529536
Erchova I., Petersen R.A., and Diamond M.E. (2003) The effect of developmental sensory and motor deprivation on the functional organization of adult rat somatosensory cortex. Brain Res. Bulletin 60: 373-386
Panzeri S., Petroni F., Petersen R.S., and Diamond M.E. (2003) Decoding neuronal population activity in rat somatosensory cortex: Role of columnar organization. Cerebral Cortex 13: 45-52
Harris J.A., Miniussi C., Harris I.M., and Diamond M.E. (2002) Transient storage of a tactile memory trace in primary somatosensory cortex. J. Neurosci. 22: 8720-8725
Petersen R.S., Panzeri S., Diamond M.E. (2002) The role of individual spikes and spike patterns in population coding of stimulus location in rat somatosensory cortex. Biosystems. 67: 187-193
Petersen R.S., Panzeri S., and Diamond M.E. (2002) Population coding in somatosensory cortex. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 12: 441-447
Panzeri S., Petersen R.S., Schultz S.R., Lebedev M.A., and Diamond M.E. (2002) Coding of stimulus location by spike timing in rat somatosensory cortex. Neurocomputing. 44: 573-578
Bezzi M., Diamond M.E., and Treves A. (2002) Redundancy and synergy arising from pairwise correlations in neuronal ensembles. J. Comput. Neurosci. 12: 165-174
Erchova I., Lebedev M.A., and Diamond M.E. (2002) Somatosensory cortical neuronal population activity across states of anesthesia. Europ. J. Neurosci. 15: 744-752
Petersen R.S., Panzeri S., and Diamond M.E. (2001) Population coding of stimulus location in rat somatosensory cortex. Neuron 32: 503-514
Harris J.A., Harris I.M., and Diamond M.E. (2001) The topography of tactile working memory. J. Neurosci. 21: 8262-8269
Harris J.A., Petersen R.S., and Diamond M.E. (2001) The cortical distribution of sensory memories. Neuron 30: 315-318
Panzeri S., Petersen R.S., Schultz S., Lebedev M., and Diamond M.E. (2001) The role of spike timing in the coding of stimulus location in rat somatosensory cortex. Neuron 29: 769-777
Harris J.A., Harris I.M., and Diamond M.E. (2001) The topography of tactile learning in humans. J. Neurosci. 21: 1056-1061
Mirabella G., Battiston S., and Diamond M.E. (2001) Integration of multiple-whisker inputs in rat somatosensory cortex. Cerebral Cortex 11: 164-170
Martignon L., Deco G., Lasky S., Diamond M.E., Freiwald W.A., and Vaadia E. (2000) Neural Coding: Higher order correlations in the neurostatistics of cell assemblies. Neural Computation 12: 1-33
Petersen R.S. and Diamond M.E. (2000) Spatial and temporal distribution of neural activity in rat barrel cortex and the coding of stimulus location. J Neurosci. 20: 6135-6143
Harris J.A. and Diamond M.E. (2000) Ipsilateral and contralateral transfer of tactile learning. Neuroreport 11: 263-268
Lebedev M.A., Mirabella G., Erchova I., and Diamond M.E. (2000) Experience-dependent plasticity of rat barrel cortex: Redistribution of activity across barrel-columns. Cerebral Cortex 10: 23-31
Benuskova L., Ebner F.F., Diamond M.E., and Armstrong-James M. (1999) Computational study of experience-dependent plasticity in adult rat cortical barrel-column. Network: Computation in Neural Systems 10: 303-323
Diamond M.E., Petersen R.S., and Harris J.A. (1999) Learning through maps: Functional significance of topographic organization in primary sensory cortex. J. Neurobiol. 41: 64-68
Harris J.A., Petersen R.S., and Diamond M.E. (1999) Distribution of tactile learning and its neural basis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 96: 7587-7591
Rousche P.J., Petersen R.S., Battiston S., Giannotta S., and Diamond M.E. (1999) Examination of the spatial and temporal distribution of sensory cortical activity using a 100-electrode recording system. J. Neurosci. Methods 90: 57-66
Huang W., Armstrong-James M., Rema V., Diamond M.E. and Ebner F.F. (1998) Contribution of supragranular layers to sensory processing and plasticity in adult rat barrel cortex. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 3261-3271
Porro C.A., Francescato M.P., Cettolo V., Diamond M.E., Baraldi P., Zuiani C., Bazzocchi M., and di Prampero P.E. (1996) Primary motor and sensory cortex activation during motor performance and motor imagery: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. J. Neurosci. 16: 7688-7698
Diamond M.E., Huang W., and Ebner F.F. (1994) Laminar comparison of somatosensory cortical plasticity. Science 265: 1885-1888
Armstrong-James, M.A., Diamond M.E., and Ebner F.F. (1994) An innocuous bias in whisker use in adult rats modifies receptive fields of barrel cortex neurons. J. Neurosci. 14: 6978-6991
Benuskova L., Diamond M.E., and Ebner F.F. (1994) Dynamic synaptic modification threshold: Computational model of experience-dependent plasticity in adult rat barrel cortex Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 91: 4791-4795
Diamond M.E., Armstrong-James M., and Ebner F.F. (1993) Experience-dependent plasticity in the barrel cortex of adult rats Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 90: 2602-2606
Diamond M.E., Armstrong-James M., Budway M.J., and Ebner F.F. (1992) Somatic sensory responses in the rostral sector of the posterior group (POm) and in the ventral posterior medial nucleus (VPM) of the rat thalamus: Dependence on barrel cortex. J. Comp. Neurol. 319: 66-84
Diamond M.E., and Armstrong-James M. (1992) Role of parallel sensory pathways and cortical columns in learning. Concepts in Neuroscience 3: 55-78
Diamond M.E., Armstrong-James M., and Ebner F.F. (1992) Somatic sensory responses in the rostral sector of the posterior group (POm) and in the ventral posterior medial nucleus (VPM) of the rat thalamus. J. Comp. Neurol. 318: 462-476
Favorov O.V and Diamond M.E. (1990) Demonstration of discrete place-defined columns -- segregates -- in cat SI. J. Comp. Neurol. 198: 97-112
Favorov O., Diamond M.E., and Whitsel B.L. (1987) Evidence for a mosaic representation of the body surface in area 3b of the somatic sensory cortex of cat. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 84: 6606-6610

Commentaries and Media Reports

Diamond M.E. (2000) Parallel sensing [comment] Nature 406: 245-246
The Rat's Whiskers. Nature Science Update (July, 1999) read it
SENSORY SYSTEMS - A touchy subject. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2: 227 (April, 2001) read it
NEURAL CODING - A barrel of spikes. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 3: 10 (January, 2002) read it

Chapters in Books

Diamond M.E. (2004) Perception, learning, and the cerebral cortex. In: "Mind, Learning and Knowledge in Educational Contexts" (Santoianni F. and Striano M., Eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press. In Press.
Diamond M.E. (2003) Perception, learning, cerebral cortex: History, new findings, and future perspectives. In: "Mind in and out brain: Advanced Perspectives in Bioeducational Sciences" (Santoianni F. and Striano M., Eds.) Napoli: Liguori Editore. In Press.
Diamond M.E. (2002) Percezione, apprendimento, e la corteccia cerebrale: la storia, scoperte recenti e prospettive future. In: "Prospettive di ricerca nelle scienze bioeducative. (Frauenfelder E., Ed.) Napoli: Liguori Editore. pp.189-202.
Petersen R.S. and Diamond M.E. (2001) Topographic maps in the brain. In: "Encyclopedia of Life Sciences" , London: Nature Publishing Group.
Diamond M.E. (2001) Sensory system organization. In: "Encyclopedia of Life Sciences" http://www.els.net, London: Nature Publishing Group.
Mirabella G., Lebedev M., and Diamond M.E. (2001) Integration and storage of sensory events in adult rat barrel cortex. In: "Plasticity of Adult Rat Barrel Cortex" (Kossut M., Ed.) Johnson City, TN: F.P. Graham, pp. 97-126.
Diamond M.E., Harris J.A., and Petersen R.S. (2001) Sensory learning and the brain's body map. In: "The Somatosensory System: Deciphering the Brain's own Body Image" (Nelson R.J., Ed.) Boca Raton: CRC Press, pp. 183-195.
Diamond M.E. (1995) Somatosensory thalamus of the rat. In: "Cerebral Cortex, Vol. 11: Barrel Cortex." (Jones, E.G. and Diamond I.T., Eds.) New York: Plenum Press, pp. 189-219.
Diamond M.E. (1993) Parallel somatosensory pathways through the rat thalamus. In: "Thalamic Networks for Relay and Modulation." (Minciacchi D., Molinari M., Macchi G., and Jones E.G., Eds.) Oxford: Pergamon Press, pp. 99-108.
Diamond M.E., and Ebner F.F (1990) Emergence of radial and modular units in neocortex. In: "The Neocortex: Ontogeny and Phylogeny" (Finlay B., Innocenti G. and Scheich H., Eds.) New York: Plenum Press, pp. 59-71.
Whitsel B.L., Favorov O.V., Tommerdahl M., Diamond M.E. , Juliano S.L. and Kelly D.G. (1988) Dynamic processes governing the somatosensory cortical response to natural stimulation. In: "Sensory Processing in the Mammalian Brain: Neural Substrates and Experimental Strategies" (Lund, J.S., Ed.) New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 84-116.

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