Whisker vibration information carried by rat barrel cortex neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 26, 2004, Pages 6011-6020

  Arabzadeh, Ehsan ^a   Panzeri, Stefano ^b   Diamond, Mathew E ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barrel; Coding; Cortex; Information; Texture; Vibrissa

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL POPULATION; CODING; INFORMATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KINETICS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TEXTURE; VELOCITY; VIBRATION; VIBRATION AMPLITUDE; VIBRATION FREQUENCY; VIBRATION INFORMATION; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TOUCH; VIBRATION; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 3042801119     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1389-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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