Impact of cortical plasticity on information signaled by populations of neurons in the cerebral cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1118-1124

  Pita Almenar, Juan Diego ^a,b   Ranganathan, Gayathri Nattar ^a   Koester, Helmut Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Functional calcium imaging; Mesoscale; Random access scanning; Spatiotemporal patterns of activity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL POPULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 80052567261     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01001.2010     Document Type: Article

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