Optical imaging and electrophysiology of rat barrel cortex. I. Responses to small single-vibrissa deflections

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 173-183

  Peterson, Bret E ^a   Goldreich, Daniel ^b   Merzenich, Michael M ^c  

^a Scientific Learning Corporation   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RODENT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0031952687     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/8.2.173     Document Type: Article

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