Emergence of novel representations in primary motor cortex and premotor neurons during associative learning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 38, 2008, Pages 9545-9556

  Zach, Neta ^a,b,c   Inbar, Dorrit ^a,b   Grinvald, Yael ^a   Bergman, Hagai ^a,b   Vaadia, Eilon ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Association; Consolidation; Memory; Motor cortex; Motor learning; Single unit activity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; KINEMATICS; MACACA; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BIOMECHANICS; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 58149357035     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1965-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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