Encoding and decoding cortical representations of tactile features in the vibrissa system

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 30, 2010, Pages 9990-10005

  Boloori, Ali Reza ^a   Jenks, Robert A ^a   Desbordes, Gaëlle ^b   Stanley, Garrett B ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Emory University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; VELOCITY; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN MAPPING; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 77955399278     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0807-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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