Variability and interhemispheric asymmetry of single-whisker functional representations in rat barrel cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 884-894

  Chen Bee, C H ^a   Frostig, R D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; HEMISPHERE; IMAGING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA IMAGE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0029841775     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1996.76.2.884     Document Type: Article

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