Environmental enrichment differentially modifies specific components of sensory-evoked activity in rat barrel cortex as revealed by simultaneous electrophysiological recordings and optical imaging in vivo
@article{Devonshire2010EnvironmentalED, title={Environmental enrichment differentially modifies specific components of sensory-evoked activity in rat barrel cortex as revealed by simultaneous electrophysiological recordings and optical imaging in vivo }, author={Ian M. Devonshire and Eleanor Jane Dommett and Thomas H. Grandy and Amy C. Halliday and Susan A. Greenfield}, journal={Neuroscience}, year={2010}, volume={170}, pages={662-669} }
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