Prediction of primary somatosensory neuron activity during active tactile exploration

eLife

Volumn 5, Issue FEBRUARY2016, 2016, Pages

  Campagner, Dario ^a   Evans, Mathew Hywel ^a   Bale, Michael Ross ^a,b   Erskine, Andrew ^a,c   Petersen, Rasmus Strange ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; KINEMATICS; MODEL; MOTION; NERVE CELL; PREDICTION; SENSE ORGAN; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOUCH; VIBRISSA; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; LOCOMOTION; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; LOCOMOTION; MICE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURONS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84961285049     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.10696     Document Type: Article

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