Table 3.

Tuning width of inhibitory neurons by cell type.

Interneuron class	Sensory cortex	Layers	Tuning	Species	References
FS	V1	4	Broadly tuned	Cat, Rabbit, Mouse	Swadlow and Weyand, 1987; Swadlow, 1988; Cardin et al., 2007; Li et al., 2012b; Zhuang et al., 2013
		4	Mixed	Cat	Hirsch et al., 2003
		2/3, 5/6	Well-tuned	Cat	Cardin et al., 2007
		Mixed	Broadly tuned	Cat, Mouse	Niell and Stryker, 2008; Nowak et al., 2008
		Mixed	Mixed	Cat	Azouz et al., 1997
	A1	4, Mixed	Broadly tuned	Cat, Rat, Mouse	Atencio and Schreiner, 2008; Wu et al., 2008; Moore and Wehr, 2013
	S1	4, Mixed	Broadly tuned	Rat, Rabbit	Simons, 1978; Simons and Carvell, 1989; Swadlow, 1989; Bruno and Simons, 2002; Gabernet et al., 2005
		4, Mixed	Well-tuned	Rat, Mouse	Zhu and Connors, 1999; Kwegyir-Afful et al., 2013
	GC	Mixed	Well-tuned	Rat	Yokota et al., 2011
PV	V1	2/3, 4	Broadly tuned	Mouse	Ma et al., 2010; Kuhlman et al., 2011; Zariwala et al., 2011; Atallah et al., 2012; Cottam et al., 2013; Runyan and Sur, 2013
		2/3	Mixed	Mouse	Runyan et al., 2010; Zariwala et al., 2011; Runyan and Sur, 2013
	A1	2/3	Broadly tuned	Mouse	Li et al., 2014b
		Mixed	Well-tuned	Mouse	Moore and Wehr, 2013
Chandelier	S1	2/3	Broadly tuned	Rat	Zhu et al., 2004
SOM	V1	2/3, 4	Well-tuned	Mouse	Ma et al., 2010; Cottam et al., 2013
	A1	2/3	Well-tuned	Mouse	Li et al., 2014b
VIP	A1		Tone responsive, tuning unknown	Mouse	Pi et al., 2013
Layer 1	S1	1: deep projecting	Well-tuned	Rat	Zhu and Zhu, 2004
	S1	1: local	Broadly tuned	Rat	Zhu and Zhu, 2004
	Pir	1	Broadly tuned	Rat	Poo and Isaacson, 2009

FS, fast spiking width; V1, primary visual cortex; A1, primary auditory cortex; S1, primary somatosensory cortex; GC, primary gustatory cortex; Pir, primary olfactory cortex; PV, parvalbumin positive neurons; SOM, somatostatin positive neurons; VIP, vasoactive intestinal peptide positive neurons.