"Master" neurons induced by operant conditioning in rat motor cortex during a brain-machine interface task

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 8308-8320

  Arduin, Pierre Jean ^a   Frégnac, Yves ^a   Shulz, Daniel E ^a   Ego Stengel, Valérie ^a  

^a Unite de Neurosciences Integratives et Computationnelles   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOVECIN; MELOXICAM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRAINING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES; CELL SURVIVAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE NET; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; REWARD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84877298637     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2744-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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