Low and high gamma oscillations in rat ventral striatum have distinct relationships to behavior, reward, and spiking activity on a learned spatial decision task

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue JUN, 2009, Pages

  van der Meer, Matthijs A A ^a   Redish, A David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticipation; EEG; Gamma; LFP; Nucleus accumbens; Reward; Ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450121283     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.07.009.2009     Document Type: Article

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