Consistency of angular tuning in the rat vibrissa system

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3105-3112

  Hemelt, Marie E ^a   Kwegyir Afful, Ernest E ^b   Bruno, Randy M ^b,c   Simons, Daniel J ^b   Keller, Asaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SECONDARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; NEURONS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 78650886631     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00697.2009     Document Type: Article

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