Whisker primary afferents encode temporal frequency of moving gratings

Somatosensory and Motor Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 45-54

  Jones, Lauren M ^a,b   Kwegyir Afful, Ernest E ^a,c   Keller, Asaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coding; Discrimination; Rat; Spike timing; Trigeminal; Vibrissae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL BONE; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; VELOCITY; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 33746350792     PISSN: 08990220     EISSN: 13691651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08990220600702707     Document Type: Article

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