Texture signals in whisker vibrations

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1792-1799

  Hipp, Joerg ^a,e   Arabzadeh, Ehsan ^b   Zorzin, Erik ^b   Conradt, Jorg ^a   Kayser, Christoph ^c   Diamond, Mathew E ^b   König, Peter ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^e Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; VIBRATION SENSE; VIBRISSA; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; INSTRUMENTATION; MECHANORECEPTOR; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE; STIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOUCH; VIBRATION; WISTAR RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TOUCH; VIBRATION; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 33645966808     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01104.2005     Document Type: Article

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