Intercolumnar synchronization of neuronal activity in rat barrel cortex during patterned airjet stimulation: A laminar analysis

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 311-325

  Zhang, Mengliang ^a,b   Alloway, Kevin D ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Cross correlation analysis; Intracortical connections; Neuronal synchronization; Stimulus coordination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; MALE; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 33644832646     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-0152-5     Document Type: Article

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