Gamma-band oscillations in the 'barrel cortex' precede rat's exploratory whisking

Neuroscience

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 667-671

  Hamada, Y ^a,c   Miyashita, E ^b   Tanaka, H ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Exploratory behavior; Gamma oscillation; Local field potential; Somatosensory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0032889853     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(98)00468-0     Document Type: Article

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