Ensembles of Gustatory Cortical Neurons Anticipate and Discriminate Between Tastants in a Single Lick

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 161-174

  Stapleton, Jennifer R ^a   Lavine, Michael L ^b   Nicolelis, Miguel A L ^a,b,c,d,e   Simon, Sidney A ^a,b,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Biomedical Engineering ^*  (United States)

^d Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience of Natal   (Brazil)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bayesian generalized linear model; fixed ratio schedule; gustation, licking; gustatory cortex; multi electrode neurophysiology; neural ensembles; rate and temporal coding

Indexed keywords

EID: 60849129910     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.01.1.1.012.2007     Document Type: Article

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