Temporal and spatial characteristics of vibrissa responses to motor commands

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 8935-8952

  Simony, Erez ^a   Bagdasarian, Knarik ^a   Herfst, Lucas ^b   Brecht, Michael ^b   Ahissar, Ehud ^a   Golomb, David ^c  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIMULATION; SPATIAL SUMMATION; SPIKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOUCH; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CALCIUM; FACE; FACIAL MUSCLES; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 77954394981     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0172-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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