Behavioral Modulation of Tactile Responses in the Rat Somatosensory System
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Behavioral modulation of tactile responses in the rat somatosensory system.
We investigated the influence of four different behavioral states on tactile responses recorded simultaneously via arrays of microwires chronically implanted in the vibrissal representations of the rat ventral posterior medial nucleus (VPM) of the thalamus and the primary somatosensory cortex (SI). Brief (100 microsecond) electrical stimuli delivered via a cuff electrode to the infraorbital ner...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0270-6474,1529-2401
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-17-07603.1999