Detection of tactile inputs in the rat vibrissa pathway

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 479-490

  Ollerenshaw, Douglas R ^a   Bari, Bilal A ^a   Millard, Daniel C ^a   Orr, Lauren E ^a   Wang, Qi ^a   Stanley, Garrett B ^a  

^a Emory University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ideal observer; Psychometric performance; Voltage sensitive dye

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REACTION TIME; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA; VOLTAGE SENSITIVE DYE IMAGING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84864001579     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00004.2012     Document Type: Article

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