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A Simple Stimulatory Device for Evoking Point-like Tactile Stimuli: A Searchlight for LFP to Spike Transitions

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Stimulus-response profile analysis: a comprehensive, quantitative approach to the study of sensory coding and

J M Gibson, W I Welker

    Journal of Neuroscience Methods
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