Encoding of vibrissal active touch

Neuron

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 621-630

  Szwed, Marcin ^a   Bagdasarian, Knarik ^a   Ahissar, Ehud ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CELL; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE; TOUCH; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; VIBRISSA;

EID: 0345118988     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(03)00671-8     Document Type: Article

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