A multisensory zone in rat parietotemporal cortex: Intra- and extracellular physiology and thalamocortical connections

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 460, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 223-237

  Brett Green, Barbara ^a   Fifková, Eva ^a   Larue, David T ^b   Winer, Jeffery A ^b   Barth, Daniel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Evoked potentials; Mapping; Multimodal; Polysensory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; CAT; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS;

EID: 0037467550     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10637     Document Type: Article

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