Stimulus-specific and stimulus-nonspecific firing synchrony and its modulation by sensory adaptation in the whisker-to-barrel pathway

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2328-2338

  Khatri, Vivek ^a   Bruno, Randy M ^a,b   Simons, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Neurobiology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; SENSORY STIMULATION; THALAMUS; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICAL PROCESSES; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 65649114764     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.91151.2008     Document Type: Article

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