Distributed representation of vibrissa movement in the upper layers of somatosensory cortex revealed with voltage-sensitive dyes

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 375, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 89-108

  Kleinfeld, D ^a,c   Delaney, K R ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

barrel cortex; electrical activity; functional imaging; lateral interactions; whiskers

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL INTERACTION; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AFFERENT DEPOLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOVEMENT; OPTICS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STYRENES; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0029910183     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19961104)375:1<89::AID-CNE6>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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