Texture coding in the rat whisker system: Slip-stick versus differential resonance

PLoS Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1661-1677

  Wolfe, Jason ^a,b   Hill, Dan N ^a   Pahlavan, Sohrab ^a   Drew, Patrick J ^a   Kleinfeld, David ^a   Feldman, Daniel E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; RAT; TRAINING; VELOCITY; VIBRATION; VIBRISSA; WAKEFULNESS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MECHANORECEPTOR; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

RATTUS;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MECHANORECEPTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRATION; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 50249121903     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060215     Document Type: Article

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