A somatotopic map of vibrissa motion direction within a barrel column

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 543-551

  Andermann, Mark L ^a   Moore, Christopher I ^b  

^a Harvard Program in Ethics and Health   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXAMINATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; MALE; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 33645361125     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1671     Document Type: Article

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