Behavioral Detection of Passive Whisker Stimuli Requires Somatosensory Cortex
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Behavioral detection of passive whisker stimuli requires somatosensory cortex.
Rodent whisker sensation occurs both actively, as whiskers move rhythmically across objects, and in a passive mode in which externally applied deflections are sensed by static, non-moving whiskers. Passive whisker stimuli are robustly encoded in the somatosensory (S1) cortex, and provide a potentially powerful means of studying cortical processing. However, whether S1 contributes to passive sen...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cerebral Cortex
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1460-2199,1047-3211
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs155