Synaptic scaffold evolution generated components of vertebrate cognitive complexity

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 16-24

  Nithianantharajah, Jess ^a,b   Komiyama, Noboru H ^a,b   McKechanie, Andrew ^a,c   Johnstone, Mandy ^c   Blackwood, Douglas H ^c   Clair, David St ^d   Emes, Richard D ^e   Van De Lagemaat, Louie N ^a,b   Saksida, Lisa M ^f,g   Bussey, Timothy J ^f,g   Grant, Seth G N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f UK   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISC LARGE HOMOLOG GENE 2; DISC LARGE HOMOLOG GENE 3 GENE; DISC LARGE HOMOLOG GENE 4; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; GUANYLATE KINASE; HUMANS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SYNAPSES; TOUCH; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84871712720     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3276     Document Type: Article

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