Spatial-temporal distribution of whisker-evoked activity in rat somatosensory cortex and the coding of stimulus location

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 6135-6143

  Petersen, Rasmus S ^a   Diamond, Mathew E ^a,b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Barrel column; Cerebral cortex; Discriminab ility; Electrophysiology; Multi electrode; Neurons physiology; Population coding; Vibrissae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CODING; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS; VIBRISSA;

EID: 0034663325     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-16-06135.2000     Document Type: Article

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