Convergence across tactile afferent types in primary and secondary somatosensory cortices

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Carter, Andrew W ^a   Chen, Spencer C ^a,b   Lovell, Nigel H ^a   Vickery, Richard M ^a   Morley, John W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CAT; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SECONDARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 84949531725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107617     Document Type: Article

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