Widespread spatial integration in primary somatosensory cortex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 29, 2008, Pages 10233-10237

  Reed, Jamie L ^a   Pouget, Pierre ^c   Qi, Hui Xin ^c   Zhou, Zhiyi ^b   Bernard, Melanie R ^b   Burish, Mark J ^a   Haitas, John ^c   Bonds, A B ^b,c   Kaas, Jon H ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical receptive field; Neuronal synchrony; Primate; Two point stimulation; Utah array

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; HAND; MECHANICAL PROBE; MONKEY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AOTIDAE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; HAND; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

AOTUS TRIVIRGATUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 48249123793     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803800105     Document Type: Article

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