Rodent whisker barrels: Windows into cerebral cortical function

News in Physiological Sciences

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 268-273

  Simons, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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