Temporal characteristics of response integration evoked by multiple whisker stimulations in the barrel cortex of rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 10164-10175

  Shimegi, Satoshi ^a   Ichikawa, Takehiko ^a   Akasaki, Takafumi ^a   Sato, Hiromichi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Multiwhisker stimulation; Response facilitation; Response interaction; Somatosensory system; Spatiotemporal

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FACILITATION; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; VIBRISSA;

EID: 0033571851     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-22-10164.1999     Document Type: Article

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