Mechanisms of tactile information transmission through whisker vibrations

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 37, 2009, Pages 11686-11697

  Lottem, Eran ^a   Azouz, Rony ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD MOVEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TACTILE STIMULATION; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION; VIBRATION; VIBRISSAE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 70349139260     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0705-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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