Vibrissae-evoked behavior and conditioning before functional ontogeny of the somatosensory vibrissae cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 5131-5137

  Landers, Margo S ^a   Sullivan, Regina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrels; Behavioral plasticity; Development; Learning; Neural plasticity; Somatosensory cortex; Vibrissae; Whiskers

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; VIBRISSA;

EID: 0033564044     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-12-05131.1999     Document Type: Article

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