Role of spike timing in the forelimb somatosensory cortex of the rat

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 33, 2004, Pages 7266-7271

  Foffani, Guglielmo ^a,b   Tutunculer, Banu ^c   Moxon, Karen A ^a,c  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Multielectrode; Neural code; Population coding; Single trial; Stimulus location; Temporal coding

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY RECEPTOR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE; TIME PERCEPTION; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VIBRISSA; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; FORELIMB; INNERVATION; KINETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; FORELIMB; KINETICS; NEURONS; RATS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 7244242339     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2523-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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