Behavioral detection of passive whisker stimuli requires somatosensory cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1655-1662

  Miyashita, Toshio ^a   Feldman, Daniel E ^a  

^a University of California Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

active sensation; behavior; inactivation; muscimol; S1; vibrissa

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIBRISSA;

ACTIVE SENSATION; BEHAVIOR; INACTIVATION; MUSCIMOL; S1; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84878829445     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs155     Document Type: Article

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