Stimulus-induced reduction of noise correlation in rat prefrontal cortex

NeuroReport

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 824-829

  Ghim, Jeong Wook ^a   Baeg, Eun Ha ^a,b   Kim, Yun Bok ^a,b   Jung, Min Whan ^a  

^a Ajou University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

fear conditioning; noise correlation; prefrontal cortex; rat; single unit; tetrode

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AVERSION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FOOTSHOCK; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NOISE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 80053654907     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: 1473558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32834b93bc     Document Type: Article

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