A histologically visible representation of the fingers and palm in primate area 3b and its immutability following long-term deafferentations

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 227-236

  Jain, Neeraj ^a   Catania, Kenneth C ^a   Kaas, Jon H ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; DEAFFERENTATION; FINGER AMPUTATION; HAND FUNCTION; HAND INJURY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AOTUS TRIVIRGATUS; BRAIN MAPPING; DENERVATION; FINGERS; HAND; MACACA; MICROELECTRODES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAIMIRI; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031968898     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/8.3.227     Document Type: Article

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