Temporal and spatial coding in the rat vibrissal system

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 130, Issue , 2001, Pages 75-87

  Ahissar, Ehud ^a   Zacksenhouse, Miriam ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CELL POPULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPIKE WAVE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIBRISSA; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 0035784018     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(01)30007-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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