Vibrissa resonance as a transduction mechanism for tactile encoding

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 6499-6509

  Neimark, Maria A ^a   Andermann, Mark L ^a,b   Hopfield, John J ^c   Moore, Christopher I ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Frequency; Rat; Resonance; Somatosensory; Vibrissa; Whisker

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTACT SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH; VIBRISSA;

EID: 0041364480     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-16-06499.2003     Document Type: Article

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