Early-phase of learning enhances communication between brain hemispheres

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1470-1476

  Cybulska Klosowicz, Anita ^a   Kossut, Malgorzata ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

2 deoxyglucose; Alertness; Attention; Barrel cortex; Classical conditioning; Mice

Indexed keywords

DEOXYGLUCOSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPETITE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; AVERSION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMISPHERE; LEARNING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CARBON ISOTOPES; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DEOXYGLUCOSE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 33748755947     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.05008.x     Document Type: Article

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