Stimulus-dependent changes in spike threshold enhance feature selectivity in rat barrel cortex neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2983-2991

  Wilent, W Bryan ^a   Contreras, Diego ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potential; Direction; Feature selectivity; In vivo; Intracellular; Synaptic potential; Synchronization; Tuning; Whisker

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSES; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 15244358090     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4906-04.2005     Document Type: Article

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