Cortical damping: Analysis of thalamocortical response transformations in rodent barrel cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 33-44

  Pinto, David J ^a   Hartings, Jed A ^b   Brumberg, Joshua C ^c   Simons, Daniel J ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CELL; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; IN VIVO STUDY; INHIBITION KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VIBRISSA;

EID: 0037213793     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/13.1.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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