Trial-to-trial variability in the responses of neurons carries information about stimulus location in the rat whisker thalamus

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 36, 2011, Pages 14956-14961

  Scaglione, Alessandro ^a   Moxon, Karen A ^a   Aguilar, Juan ^b   Foffani, Guglielmo ^a,b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL NACIONAL DE PARAPLÉJICOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URETHAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THALAMUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; TRIAL TO TRIAL VARIABILITY; VENTROPOSTEROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; OBSERVER VARIATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI;

RATTUS;

EID: 80052578908     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1103168108     Document Type: Article

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