Frequency responses of cat rapidly adapting mechanoreceptive fibers

Somatosensory and Motor Research

Volumn 20, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 249-263

  Güçlü, Burak ^b   Bolanowski, Stanley J ^a  

^a Syracuse Institute for Sensory Research   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Mechanoreceptor; Rapidly adapting fiber; Rate level function; Response area; Tuning curve

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; MECHANORECEPTOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPIDLY ADAPTING FIBER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; EPIDERMIS; MECHANORECEPTORS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOUCH;

EID: 0347511027     PISSN: 08990220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08990220310001622988     Document Type: Article

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