Spatial organization of neuronal population responses in layer 2/3 of rat barrel cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 48, 2007, Pages 13316-13328

  Kerr, Jason N D ^a,c   De Kock, Christiaan P J ^a   Greenberg, David S ^a   Bruno, Randy M ^a   Sakmann, Bert ^a   Helmchen, Fritjof ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activity patterns; Correlation; Cortex; Orientation selection; Population coding; Population imaging; Somatosensory; Spatial organization; Vibrissa (whisker)

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN MAPPING; CALCIUM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEURONS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 36849035456     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2210-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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