Spike timing, spike count, and temporal information for the discrimination of tactile stimuli in the rat ventrobasal complex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 5964-5973

  Foffani, G ^a,b,c   Morales Botello, M L ^a   Aguilar, J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL NACIONAL DE PARAPLÉJICOS   (Spain)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; THALAMUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 65949103404     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4416-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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