Layer-specific touch-dependent facilitation and depression in the somatosensory cortex during active whisking

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 37, 2006, Pages 9538-9547

  Derdikman, Dori ^a,b   Yu, Chunxiu ^a   Haidarliu, Sebastian ^a   Bagdasarian, Knarik ^a   Arieli, Amos ^a   Ahissar, Ehud ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Active touch; Adaptation; Barrels; Lemniscal; Paralemniscal; Whisker

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 33748708638     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0918-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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