Central signals rapidly switch tactile processing in rat barrel cortex during whisker movements

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1142-1156

  Hentschke, Harald ^a,b   Haiss, Florent ^a   Schwarz, Cornelius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active sensing; Neural coding; Primary somatosensory cortex; Sensorimotor integration; Vibrissae; Whisking

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; KINEMATICS; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA; WAVEFORM;

EID: 33745772966     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhj056     Document Type: Article

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