ABSTRACT
There currently is much interest in defining the contributions of "dynamic mechanisms" to somatosensory cortical information processing in normal adult animals (Mountcastle 1983). While the nature of these mechanisms and their contributions to somesthesis remain uncertain, it is believed that they operate to reversibly modify those "static" characteristics of single neurons (i.e., receptive field and feature extraction properties) attributable to the hard-wired connectivity of the adult somatic somatosensory nervous system.
