Spatial structure of multiwhisker receptive fields in the barrel cortex is stimulus dependent

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 986-998

  le Cam, Julie ^a   Estebanez, Luc ^a   Jacob, Vincent ^a   Shulz, Daniel E ^a  

^a Unite de Neurosciences Integratives et Computationnelles   (France)

Author keywords

Direction selectivity; Rat; Somatosensory cortex; Touch; Vibrissa

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 80051501871     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00044.2011     Document Type: Article

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