Perceptual learning reduces interneuronal correlations in macaque visual cortex

Neuron

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 750-761

  Gu, Yong ^a   Liu, Sheng ^a   Fetsch, Christopher R ^a   Yang, Yun ^a   Fok, Sam ^a   Sunkara, Adhira ^a   DeAngelis, Gregory C ^b   Angelaki, Dora E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; LEARNING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NERVE CELL; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INTERNEURONS; LEARNING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 80051863950     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.06.015     Document Type: Article

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