Neuronal activity in the primary somatosensory thalamocortical loop is modulated by reward contingency during tactile discrimination

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 39, 2007, Pages 10608-10620

  Pantoja, Janaina ^a   Ribeiro, Sidarta ^b   Wiest, Michael ^a,c   Soares, Ernesto ^a   Gervasoni, Damien ^e   Lemos, Nelson A M ^b   Nicolelis, Miguel A L ^a,b,c,d,f  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience of Natal   (Brazil)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Duke University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^f EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ANN; Behavior; Cortex; Memory; Reward; Somatosensory; Tactile; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTINGENT VALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMIC NUCLEI; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH;

EID: 34848823481     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5279-06.2007     Document Type: Article

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