Spike rate and spike timing contributions to coding taste quality information in rat periphery

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lawhern, Vernon ^a   Nikonov, Alexandre A ^a   Wu, Wei ^a   Contreras, Robert J ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geniculate ganglion; Spike train metrics; Temporal coding

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL NERVE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 82255177113     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2011.00018     Document Type: Article

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