Identified circuit in rat postrhinal cortex encodes essential information for performing specific visual shape discriminations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 32, 2010, Pages 14478-14483

  Zhang, Guo Rong ^a   Cao, Haiyan ^a   Kong, Lingxin ^a   O'Brien, Jennifer ^a   Baughns, Andrew ^a   Jan, Mary ^a   Zhao, Hua ^a   Wang, Xiaodan ^a   Lu, Xiu Gui ^a   Cook, Robert G ^b   Geller, Alfred I ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Herpes simplex virus vector; Learning; Neocortex; Protein kinase C; Vision

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE C;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GENE TRANSFER; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; ANIMAL; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NERVE TRACT; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROTEIN KINASE C; RATS; TRANSFECTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; RATTUS; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 77956273985     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0912950107     Document Type: Article

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