Encoding of whisker vibration by rat barrel cortex neurons: Implications for texture discrimination

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 27, 2003, Pages 9146-9154

  Arabzadeh, Ehsan ^a   Petersen, Rasmus S ^a   Diamond, Mathew E ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Barrel; Cortex; Tactile; Texture; Vibration; Vibrissae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOGRAM; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RELIABILITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPIKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TEXTURE DISCRIMINATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIBRATION; VIBRISSA;

EID: 0141919604     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-27-09146.2003     Document Type: Article

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