Asymmetric Multisensory Interactions of Visual and Somatosensory Responses in a Region of the Rat Parietal Cortex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Lippert, Michael T ^a,d   Takagaki, Kentaroh ^a   Kayser, Christoph ^b,c   Ohl, Frank W ^a,d,e  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; MALE; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL IMAGING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SENSATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84877144225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063631     Document Type: Article

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