Intracellularly recorded responses of neurons of the motor cortex of awake cats to presentations of Pavlovian conditioned and unconditioned stimuli

Brain Research

Volumn 969, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 205-216

  Birt, Dorwin ^a   Aou, Shuji ^a   Woody, Charles D ^a  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic signal processing; Associative learning; Conditioned stimulus; Hebb; Premotor activity; Sensorimotor processing; Unconditioned stimulus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BLINKING; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; CAT; CLICK; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HYPERPOLARIZATION; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INJECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LATENT PERIOD; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPIKE; STEADY STATE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VIBRATION;

EID: 0037453252     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(03)02331-X     Document Type: Article

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