Two Distinct Regions of Secondary Somatosensory Cortex in the Rat: Topographical Organization and Multisensory Responses

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1327-1336

  Brett Green, Barbara ^a   Paulsen, Marcy ^a   Staba, Richard J ^a   Fifková, Eva ^a   Barth, Daniel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED RESPONSE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 1342301638     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00905.2003     Document Type: Article

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