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Quantitative study of the somatosensory sensitization underlying cross-modal plasticity

Loss of one sensory modality can cause other types to become more perceptive (cross-modal plasticity). To test the hypothesis that the loss of vision changes the perceptual threshold in the somatosensory system, we applied optogenetics to directly manipulate the afferent inputs involved in the whisk...

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Autores principales: Abe, Kenta, Yawo, Hiromu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6281227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30517160
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208089

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