Temporal patterns of field potentials in vibrissa/barrel cortex reveal stimulus orientation and shape

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2242-2251

  Benison, Alexander M ^a   Ard, Tyler D ^a   Crosby, Allison M ^a   Barth, Daniel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELECTRODES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; MALE; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 33645360488     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01034.2005     Document Type: Article

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