Laminar and Columnar Structure of Sensory-Evoked Multineuronal Spike Sequences in Adult Rat Barrel Cortex in Vivo

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2001-2021

  Reyes Puerta, Vicente ^a   Sun, Jyh Jang ^a,b   Kim, Suam ^a   Kilb, Werner ^a   Luhmann, Heiko J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b Belgium   (Belgium)

Author keywords

barrel cortex; feedforward inhibition; multielectrode; neural assembly; spike sequences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRODE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THALAMUS; VIBRISSA; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STIMULATION; TOUCH; WISTAR RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS, WISTAR; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84938635892     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu007     Document Type: Article

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