Neuronal encoding of texture in the whisker sensory pathway

PLoS Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Arabzadeh, Ehsan ^a   Zorzin, Erik ^a   Diamond, Mathew E ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; MALE; NONHUMAN; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY SYSTEM; SPIKE; STIMULUS; SURFACE PROPERTY; VELOCITY; VIBRATION; VIBRISSA; ANIMAL; HUMAN; KINETICS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 14644437104     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030017     Document Type: Article

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