Stimulus dependence of barrel cortex directional selectivity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Puccini, Gabriel D ^a   Compte, Albert ^a,b   Maravall, Miguel ^a  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VIBRISSA; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; INNERVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STIMULATION; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; TOUCH;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 54949096111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000137     Document Type: Article

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