Is there a thalamic component to experience-dependent cortical plasticity?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1428, 2002, Pages 1709-1715

  Fox, Kevin ^a   Wallace, Helen ^a,b   Glazewski, Stanislaw ^a,c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ALDER HEY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Somatosensory; Ventro posterior medial

Indexed keywords

NEUROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 0037196089     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1169     Document Type: Conference Paper

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