Discrimination of Vibrotactile Stimuli in the Rat Whisker System: Behavior and Neurometrics

Neuron

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 530-540

  Gerdjikov, Todor V ^a,b,c   Bergner, Caroline G ^a,b   Stüttgen, Maik C ^a,b   Waiblinger, Christian ^a,b   Schwarz, Cornelius ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

SIGNALING; SYSBIO; SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; VIBRATION SENSE; VIBRISSA;

EID: 76849083227     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.02.007     Document Type: Article

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