Similarity of direction tuning among responses to stimulation of different whiskers in neurons of rat barrel cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 2004-2018

  Kida, Hiroyuki ^a   Shimegi, Satoshi ^a   Sato, Hiromichi ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FACILITATION; HISTOLOGY; LATENT PERIOD; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 23944437346     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00113.2004     Document Type: Article

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