Learning-dependent potentiation in the vibrissal motor cortex is closely related to the acquisition of conditioned whisker responses in behaving mice

Learning and Memory

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 84-93

  Troncoso, Julieta ^a,b   Múnera, Alejandro ^a,b   Delgado García, José María ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; LEARNING; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; VIBRISSA;

EID: 33846838590     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.341807     Document Type: Article

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