Redundancy and synergy of neuronal ensembles in motor cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 4207-4216

  Narayanan, Nandakumar S ^a   Kimchi, Eyal Y ^a   Laubach, Mark ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Motor cortex; Neuronal ensembles; Population coding; Reaction time; Redundancy; Synergy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 18244362048     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4697-04.2005     Document Type: Article

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