Emergent Properties of Tactile Scenes Selectively Activate Barrel Cortex Neurons

Neuron

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1112-1125

  Jacob, Vincent ^a   Le Cam, Julie ^a   Ego Stengel, Valérie ^a   Shulz, Daniel E ^a  

^a Unite de Neurosciences Integratives et Computationnelles   (France)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE STIMULATION; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 57649216939     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2008.10.017     Document Type: Article

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