Neural coding in barrel cortex during whisker-guided locomotion

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue DECEMBER2015, 2015, Pages

  Sofroniew, Nicholas James ^a   Vlasov, Yurii A ^a,b   Hires, Samuel Andrew ^a,c   Freeman, Jeremy ^a   Svoboda, Karel ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOCOMOTION; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEURAL CODING; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE WAVE; STEREOMICROSCOPY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VIBRISSA; VIRTUAL REALITY; ANIMAL; NERVE CELL; NEUROIMAGING; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TOUCH;

ANIMALS; LOCOMOTION; MICE; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONS; OPTOGENETICS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84971209245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.12559     Document Type: Article

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