Dynamic connectivity among cortical layers in local and large-scale sensory processing

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3215-3223

  Plomp, Gijs ^a   Quairiaux, Charles ^a   Kiss, Jozsef Z ^a   Astolfi, Laura ^b,c   Michel, Christoph M ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Cortical column; Functional connectivity; Granger causality

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULATION; TOUCH; VIBRISSA; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84910666946     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12687     Document Type: Article

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