Vibrissa Self-Motion and Touch Are Reliably Encoded along the Same Somatosensory Pathway from Brainstem through Thalamus

PLoS Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Moore, Jeffrey D ^a   Mercer Lindsay, Nicole ^b   Deschênes, Martin ^c   Kleinfeld, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEUROBIOLOGY SECTION   (United States)

^c CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DE L INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EN SANTÉ MENTALE DE QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIRING RATE; MODULATION DEPTH; MOTION; NERVE CELL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PROPRIOCEPTION; RAT; SELF MOTION; SENSATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMUS; TOUCH; VIBRISSA; WHISKING; ZONA INCERTA; ANIMAL; LONG EVANS RAT; MECHANORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; PROPRIOCEPTION; RATS, LONG-EVANS; THALAMUS; TOUCH; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEI; VIBRISSAE; ZONA INCERTA;

EID: 84943161260     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002253     Document Type: Article

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