FIGURE 1.
Implantation and behavioral paradigm. (A) Diagram of custom-made planar silicon microelectrode array (Lee et al., 2017), implanted in the primary somatosensory cortex of Sprague-Dawley rats (N = 6). (B) A conditioned-avoidance behavioral paradigm was used to measure ICMS detection thresholds. Rats were trained to briefly stop drinking after an ICMS stimulus was detected, and failure to stop drinking resulted in a small shock applied through the drinking spout. (C) Adaptation protocol for determining detection thresholds.