Responses of areas 3b and 1 in anesthetized squirrel monkeys to single- and dual-site stimulation of the digits

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3185-3196

  Friedman, Robert M ^a   Chen, Li Min ^a   Roe, Anna W ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FINGER; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SQUIRREL MONKEY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FINGERS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SAIMIRI; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 57449098037     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.90278.2008     Document Type: Article

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