Superior sensation: Superior colliculus participation in rat vibrissa system

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hemelt, Marie E ^a   Keller, Asaf ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VIBRISSA;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; REACTION TIME; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 33847217988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-8-12     Document Type: Article

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