Role of primary somatic sensory cortex in the categorization of tactile stimuli: Effects of lesions

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 357-360

  Zainos, Antonio ^a   Merchant, Hugo ^a   Hernández, Adrián ^a   Salinas, Emilio ^a   Romo, Ranulfo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA CELULAR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Categorization task; Lesions; Monkey; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HAND; KINETICS; MACACA MULATTA; MOVEMENT; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 0031001084     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005704     Document Type: Article

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