Structure of receptive fields in area 3b of primary somatosensory cortex in the alert monkey

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2626-2645

  Dicarlo, James J ^a   Johnson, Kenneth O ^a,b   Hsiao, Steven S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Area 3b; Cortex; First order kernel; Form; Monkey; Receptive field; Reverse correlation; SI; Somatosensory; Tactile; Texture

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; MONKEY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE STIMULATION;

EID: 0032053955     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-07-02626.1998     Document Type: Article

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