Information rate and spike-timing precision of proprioceptive afferents

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1706-1717

  DiCaprio, Ralph A ^a   Billimoria, Cyrus P ^a,b   Ludwar, Björn Ch ^a,c  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEA; ENTROPY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIMB; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSORY NERVE; SOMATIC CELL; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXTREMITIES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROPRIOCEPTION;

EID: 34548775688     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00176.2007     Document Type: Article

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