An automated method for detection of layer activation order in information processing pathway of rat barrel cortex under mechanical whisker stimulation

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 141-150

  Mahmud, Mufti ^a   Pasqualotto, Elisabetta ^a   Bertoldo, Alessandra ^a   Girardi, Stefano ^a   Maschietto, Marta ^a   Vassanelli, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Current source density.; Layer activation order; Local field potentials; Whisker stimulation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 79951552808     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.11.024     Document Type: Article

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