An automated method to determine angular preferentiality using LFPs recorded from rat barrel cortex by brain-chip interface under mechanical whisker stimulation

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2307-2310

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

angular tuning; Barrel cortex; EOSFET; local field potentials; neuronal activity; whisker stimulation

Indexed keywords

BARREL CORTEX; EOSFET; LOCAL FIELD POTENTIALS; NEURONAL ACTIVITIES; WHISKER STIMULATION;

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; MAMMALS;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 84055199263     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090580     Document Type: Conference Paper

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