Brain Structure and Function - Call for Papers: Special Issue on "Integration and Representation of Sensory Information”
A forthcoming Special Issue of Brain Structure and Function is announced on “Integration and Representation of Sensory Information.” It will be edited by Denise Manahan-Vaughan, Susan R. Sesack, and Michel Thiebaut de Schotten. Original papers, reviews, and technical reports are open for submission.
Associative memories and cognitive representations of perception and experience are both dependent on and modified by sensory information. How sensory signals enable the creation of neuronal maps, drive the encoding of information, support the acquisition of complex behaviors, and result in long-term memory has been studied by generations of neuroscientists. Recently advanced methodological tools, including optogenetics, multi-site in vivo electrophysiology, magnetic resonance imaging, and pharmacogenetics, have created unprecedented opportunities to obtain novel and precise insights into the neuroanatomical and physiological structures supporting these processes. The following are some of the key questions that can now be investigated. How does perceptual information processing drive state-dependent neuronal or cortical plasticity? How does the integration of information from different sensory modalities promote the encoding and retention of spatial and/or declarative memories? To what extent is a dynamic interaction between subcortical and cortical structures an intrinsic part of cognitive representations of sensory experience? What brain structures engage in the categorization of sensory experience? To what extent is cross-modal information processing required for high-order representations of memory and sensory experience?
We welcome original articles, updates, reviews, or methodological articles addressing all aspects of these and related questions using anatomical, functional, behavioral, computational, neurophysiological, and imaging approaches.
Articles should be submitted before August 31st, 2023.