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Science 26 August 1966:
Vol. 153. no. 3739, pp. 1020 - 1022
DOI: 10.1126/science.153.3739.1020
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Control of Somatosensory Input by Cerebral Cortex

R. J. Adkins 1, R. W. Morse 1, and A. L. Towe 1

1 Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle 98105

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.


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