Optical imaging of neuronal populations during decision-making

Science

Volumn 307, Issue 5711, 2005, Pages 896-901

  Briggman, K L ^a   Abarbanel, H D I ^b,c   Kristan Jr , W B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING; DYES; LINEAR EQUATIONS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

LEECH NERVOUS SYSTEMS; NEURONAL POPULATIONS; NEURONS; SWIMMING;

NEUROLOGY;

NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HYPERPOLARIZATION; LEECH; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; POLARIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SWIMMING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COLORING AGENTS; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; INTERNEURONS; LEECHES; LOCOMOTION; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROELECTRODES; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SWIMMING;

HIRUDINIDA;

EID: 13644261674     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1103736     Document Type: Article

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40. We thank J. E. Gonzalez and R. Y. Tsien for assistance with the FRET voltage-sensitive dyes; Panvera LLC for supplying the dyes gratis; C. Schaffer for assistance with designing the wavelength-switching device; J. Shlens, A. L. Taylor, S. B. Mehta, and E. Thomson for valuable discussions; and H. J. Chiel, M. B. Feller, D. Kleinfeld, and T. J. Sejnowksi for helpful comments and suggestions on an earlier version of this manuscript. Supported by a La Jolla Interfaces in Science Predoctoral Fellowship, funded by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (K.L.B.); a NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) training grant (K.L.B.); NIH research grants nos. MH43396 (W.B.K.) and NS40110 (H.D.I.A); U.S. Department of Energy grant no. DE-FG03-90ER14138 (H.D.I.A); NSF research grant no. PHY0097134 (H.D.I.A); and the Office of Naval Research, contract no. N00014-00-1-0181 (H.D.I.A).