Perceiving invisible light through a somatosensory cortical prosthesis

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Thomson, Eric E ^a,b   Carra, Rafael ^a,e   Nicolelis, Miguel A L ^a,b,c,d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience   (Brazil)

^c Duke University   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENGINEERING; BRAIN; INFRARED RADIATION; LEARNING; MEDICINE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROLOGY; PERCEPTION; RODENT; SENSORY SYSTEM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; INFRARED RADIATION; NEUROPROSTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; IMPLANTS, EXPERIMENTAL; INFRARED RAYS; LEARNING; LIGHT; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84874600242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2497     Document Type: Article

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