Spatiotemporal properties of short-term plasticity in sensorimotor thalamocortical pathways of the rat

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2767-2779

  Castro Alamancos, Manuel A ^a   Connors, Barry W ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

augmenting response; motor cortex; neocortex; short term plasticity; somatosensory cortex; thalamocortical; thalamus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

EID: 0029879206     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-08-02767.1996     Document Type: Article

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