Reduced variability of ongoing and evoked cortical activity leads to improved behavioral performance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Ledberg, Anders ^a   Montagnini, Anna ^b   Coppola, Richard ^c   Bressler, Steven L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE POSITION; NONHUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84865298110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043166     Document Type: Article

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