Contextual encoding by ensembles of medial prefrontal cortex neurons

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

Volumn 109, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 5086-5091

  Hyman, James M ^a   Ma, Liya ^a   Balaguer Ballester, Emili ^b   Durstewitz, Daniel ^b   Seamans, Jeremy K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrophysiological recordings; Population analysis; Temporal encoding

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84859475170     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1114415109     Document Type: Article

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