Control of Somatosensory Input by Cerebral Cortex
- 26 August 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 153 (3739) , 1020-1022
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.153.3739.1020
Abstract
Direct stimulation of the pyramidal tract increases the size of the excitatory receptive fields of neurons in the somatosensory cortex of the cat. This effect reflects greater transmission of cutaneous information through the dorsal column nuclei as a result of the facilitation of cells in these nuclei by pyramidal tract fibers.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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