Comparison of latency and rate coding for the direction of whisker deflection in the subcortical somatosensory pathway

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1810-1821

  Storchi, Riccardo ^a,c   Bale, Michael R ^a   Biella, Gabriele E M ^b   Petersen, Rasmus S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

First spike latency; Information theory; Neural coding; Spike timing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; LATENT PERIOD; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPIKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUBCORTEX; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; VIBRISSA;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84867145480     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00921.2011     Document Type: Article

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