Letter to NeuroscienceGamma-band oscillations in the “barrel cortex” precede rat's exploratory whisking
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Acknowledgements
We thank Prof. Shigemi Mori at the National Institute of Physiological Science for all his support and encouragement. We would also like to thank Dr Constantine Pavlides at the Rockefeller University for his valuable comments on this manuscript.
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