The dynamics of spatiotemporal response integration in the somatosensory cortex of the vibrissa system

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 3767-3782

  Boloori, Ali Reza ^a   Stanley, Garrett B ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Frequency response; Precision; Prediction; Suppression; Tactile discrimination

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TIME PERCEPTION; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 33645645265     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4056-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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