Encoding and decoding touch location in the leech CNS

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 30, 2006, Pages 8009-8016

  Thomson, Eric E ^b   Kristan, William B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Decoding; Latency; Leech; Local bend response; Sensory coding; Touch discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; LATENT PERIOD; LEECH; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TOUCH; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CULTURE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MECHANORECEPTOR; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SENSORY NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LEECHES; MECHANORECEPTORS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TOUCH;

EID: 33747075518     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5472-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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