Cortical control of whisker movement

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue , 2014, Pages 183-203

  Petersen, Carl C H ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Motor cortex; Neural circuits; Somatosensory cortex; Whisker motor control

Indexed keywords

BRAIN STEM; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; FACE MUSCLE; FACIAL NERVE NUCLEUS; HUMAN; MESENCEPHALON; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA; ANIMAL; INNERVATION; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; FACIAL NUCLEUS; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84904626772     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: 15454126     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-062012-170344     Document Type: Review

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