Postcentral neurons with covert receptive fields in conscious macaque monkeys: Their selective responsiveness to simultaneous two-point stimuli applied to discrete oral portions

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 168, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 303-306

  Toda, Takashi ^a,b   Taoka, Miki ^a,c  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hierarchy; Oral representation; Oral stereognosis; Postcentral somatosensory cortex; Somesthetic convergence

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMISPHERE; INCISOR; MACACA; MONKEY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TONGUE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MOUTH; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 28644435040     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-0281-x     Document Type: Article

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