Cortical columnar processing in the rat whisker-to-barrel system

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1808-1817

  Brumberg, Joshua C ^a,c   Pinto, David J ^b   Simons, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COLUMNAR EPITHELIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACILITATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VIBRISSA;

EID: 0032876913     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1999.82.4.1808     Document Type: Article

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