Impairment of the discrimination of the direction of single-whisker stimulation induced by the lemniscal pathway lesion

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 579-586

  Narumi, Takaaki ^a   Nakamura, Shinya ^a   Takashima, Ichiro ^b   Kakei, Shinji ^c   Tsutsui, Ken Ichiro ^a   Iijima, Toshio ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Directional discrimination task; Electrolytic lesion; Lemniscal pathway; Paralemniscal pathway; Thalamic nucleus; Trigeminal nucleus; Whisker

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; POSTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS, SPINAL; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 33947176569     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2007.01.003     Document Type: Article

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