Neural codes for perceptual discrimination in primary somatosensory cortex

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1210-1219

  Luna, Rogelio ^a   Hernández, Adrián ^a   Brody, Carlos D ^b   Romo, Ranulfo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TIME; TRAINING; VIBRATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MACACA; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SENSATION; STIMULATION; TOUCH;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FOURIER ANALYSIS; MACACA MULATTA; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SENSATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH;

EID: 27744438719     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1513     Document Type: Article

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