Anesthetic modulations dissociate neuroelectric characteristics between sensory-evoked and spontaneous activities across bilateral rat somatosensory cortical laminae.

Spontaneous neural activity has been widely adopted to construct functional connectivity (FC) amongst distant brain regions. Although informative, the functional role and signaling mechanism of the resting state FC are not intuitive as those in stimulus/task-evoked activity. In order to bridge the gap, we investigated anesthetic modulation of both resting-state and sensory-evoked activities.