Sensory experience modifies the short-term dynamics of neocortical synapses

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6742, 1999, Pages 367-371

  Finnerty, Gerald T ^a,b   Roberts, Langdon S E ^a   Connors, Barry W ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL;

ANIMALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; LEARNING; NEOCORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SYNAPSES; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033595193     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/22553     Document Type: Article

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