Local field potentials and the encoding of whisker deflections by population firing synchrony in thalamic barreloids

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 2137-2145

  Temereanca, Simona ^a   Simons, Daniel J ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; LOCAL FIELD POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS EVOKED THALAMIC FIELD POTENTIAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THALAMIC VENTRAL POSTEROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; THALAMUS; THALAMUS RETICULAR NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA;

ACCELERATION; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMIC NUCLEI; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0037389175     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00582.2002     Document Type: Article

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