Spatiotemporal characteristics of neuronal sensory integration in the barrel cortex of the rat

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1450-1467

  Ego Stengel, Valérie ^a   Mello E Souza, Tadeu ^a,b   Jacob, Vincent ^a   Shulz, Daniel E ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY CORTEX; SENSORY STIMULATION; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 14144253199     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00912.2004     Document Type: Article

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