Lateralization of responses to vibrissal stimulation: Connectivity and information integration in the rat sensory-motor cortex assessed with fMRI

NeuroImage

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2101-2109

  de Celis Alonso, Benito ^a,b   Sergeyeva, Marina ^a   Brune, Kay ^a   Hess, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Bilateral; Connectivity analysis; Cross correlation; FMRI; Granger causality; Lateralization; Whisker

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTOR CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84863738647     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.05.045     Document Type: Article

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