Texture discrimination and unit recordings in the rat whisker/barrel system

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 77, Issue 4-5, 2002, Pages 671-675

  Prigg, Thomas ^a   Goldreich, Daniel ^a,b,c   Carvell, George E ^b   Simons, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Rat; Whisker barrel system

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BLINDNESS; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; FEMALE; LICKING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TRAINING; VIBRISSA; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 0036955568     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(02)00917-4     Document Type: Article

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