Abrupt transitions between prefrontal neural ensemble states accompany behavioral transitions during rule learning

Neuron

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 438-448

  Durstewitz, Daniel ^a   Vittoz, Nicole M ^b   Floresco, Stan B ^c   Seamans, Jeremy K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 77952718870     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.03.029     Document Type: Article

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