Phase-to-rate transformations encode touch in cortical neurons of a scanning sensorimotor system

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 492-501

  Curtis, John C ^a,b,c   Kleinfeld, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RODENT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORY STIMULATION; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 63649089583     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2283     Document Type: Article

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