Recognition of temporally structured activity in spontaneously discharging neurons in the somatosensory cortex in waking cats

Brain Research

Volumn 750, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 129-140

  Martinson, Julia ^a   Webster, Harry H ^b   Myasnikov, Alexandre A ^a   Dykes, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Centre de Recherche Hopital Du Sacre Coeur de Montreal   (Canada)

Author keywords

autocorrelogram; bursting activity; discharge pattern analysis; extracellular recording; interspike interval

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; DENERVATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FORELIMB; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0031044641     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01339-X     Document Type: Article

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