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In neuroscience the barrels are cylindrical clusters of neurons in layer IV of the rodent somatosensory cortex, each one receiving sensory input from a single facial whisker, so that the array of barrels forms a one-to-one cortical map of the array of whiskers. Woolsey and Van der Loos named and described them in their 1970 The structural organization of layer IV in the somatosensory region (SI) of mouse cerebral cortex, and the 'barrel cortex' has since become a workhorse model for cortical columns, maps and plasticity. The referent is a functional-anatomical unit of the brain, sharing only the word with a watch's mainspring barrel.[1]
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