Large-scale organization of rat sensorimotor cortex based on a motif of large activation spreads

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 49, 2008, Pages 13274-13284

  Frostig, Ron D ^a,b,c   Xiong, Ying ^a   Chen Bee, Cynthia H ^a   Kvašňák, Eugen ^a   Stehberg, Jimmy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potential; Barrel; Extracellular recordings; Local field potentials; Somatosensory cortex; Whiskers

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORY CORTEX; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VIBRISSA; ANIMAL; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; MECHANORECEPTOR; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STIMULATION; TOUCH; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VIBRISSAE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 58149378380     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4074-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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