Gating of the sensory activity within barrel cortex of the awake rat

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 123, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 117-123

  Wróbel, Andrzej ^a   Kublik, Ewa ^a   Musiał, Paweł ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Contextual gating; Cortical column; Evoked potentials; Information processing; Principal components

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BRAIN CORTEX; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOKED RESPONSE; GRANULAR CELL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS; RATS; SENSATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0031731111     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050552     Document Type: Conference Paper

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