Spatio-temporal subthreshold receptive fields in the vibrissa representation of rat primary somatosensory cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2882-2892

  Moore, Christopher I ^a   Nelson, Sacha B ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; GRANULAR CELL; HYPERPOLARIZATION; LATENT PERIOD; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA;

EID: 0032427075     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.80.6.2882     Document Type: Article

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