Transformation of adaptation and gain rescaling along the whisker sensory pathway

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Maravall, Miguel ^a   Alenda, Andrea ^a,c   Bale, Michael R ^a,b   Petersen, Rasmus S ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE NEUROCIENCIAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MEDIAL LEMNISCUS; NONHUMAN; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; VIBRISSA;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RATS; SENSATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84892395862     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082418     Document Type: Article

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