Simultaneous encoding of tactile information by three primate cortical areas

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 621-630

  Nicolelis, Miguel A L ^a   Ghazanfar, Asif A ^a   Stambaugh, Christopher R ^a   Oliveira, Laura M O ^a   Laubach, Mark ^a   Chapin, John K ^b   Nelson, Randall J ^c   Kaas, Jon H ^d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; AOTUS; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HAND; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULATION; TOUCH;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AOTIDAE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HAND; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 0032200104     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/2855     Document Type: Article

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