Functional Topography of Corticothalamic Feedback Enhances Thalamic Spatial Response Tuning in the Somatosensory Whisker/Barrel System

Neuron

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 639-651

  Temereanca, Simona ^a   Simons, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RODENT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; THALAMUS; VIBRISSA;

EID: 1342333727     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(04)00046-7     Document Type: Article

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