Detection of low salience whisker stimuli requires synergy of tectal and thalamic sensory relays

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2245-2256

  Cohen, Jeremy D ^a   Castro Alamancos, Manuel A ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; THALAMUS; VIBRISSA; WAKEFULNESS;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; THALAMUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEI; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 76649126364     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5746-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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