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Anesthetic state does not affect the map of the hand representation within area 3b somatosensory cortex in owl monkey
Author(s) -
Stryker Michael P.,
Jenkins William M.,
Merzenich Michael M.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of comparative neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.855
H-Index - 209
eISSN - 1096-9861
pISSN - 0021-9967
DOI - 10.1002/cne.902580209
Subject(s) - receptive field , somatosensory system , biology , neuroscience , anesthetic , ketamine , pentobarbital , anatomy , anesthesia , medicine , pharmacology
Receptive fields defined for small clusters of neurons within the middle cortical layers of area 3b differed little in size or in the skin locations represented among: (a) alert, (b) nitrous oxide‐anesthetized, (c) deep sodium pentobarbital‐anesthetized, and (d) ketamine‐anesthetized owl monkeys. Repeated recordings from nearly identical cortical loci yielded nearly identical multiunit receptive fields under different conditions of anesthesia.