Strengthening of horizontal cortical connections following skill learning

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 230-234

  Rioult Pedotti, Mengia S ^a   Friedman, Daniel ^a   Hess, Grzegorz ^a,b   Donoghue, John P ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FORELIMB; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REFERENCE VALUE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FORELIMB; LEARNING; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 33644683234     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/678     Document Type: Article

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