Functional organization of tactile inputs: From the hand in the cuneate nucleus and its relationship to organization in the somatosensory cortex

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 411, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 369-389

  Xu, J ^a   Wall, J T ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsal column nuclei; Lemniscal; Primate; Somatosensory maps; Somatotopic transformations

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CUNEATE NUCLEUS; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; MONKEY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; HAND; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; SAIMIRI; THALAMUS; TOUCH;

EID: 0032776159     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990830)411:3<369::AID-CNE2>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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