Millisecond precision spike timing shapes tactile perception

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 44, 2012, Pages 15309-15317

  Mackevicius, Emily L ^a   Best, Matthew D ^a   Saal, Hannes P ^a   Bensmaia, Sliman J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESPONSE TIME; RHESUS MONKEY; SPIKE WAVE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH; VIBRATION SENSE; WAVEFORM;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SKIN; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VIBRATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868124515     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2161-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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