Flow of cortical activity underlying a tactile decision in mice

Neuron

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 179-194

  Guo, ZengcaiV ^a   Li, Nuo ^a   Huber, Daniel ^a   Ophir, Eran ^a   Gutnisky, Diego ^a   Ting, JonathanT ^b   Feng, Guoping ^b   Svoboda, Karel ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; DECISION MAKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; LICKING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PLANNING; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTOGENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTION PERCEPTION; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RHODOPSIN; TOUCH; VESICULAR INHIBITORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORT PROTEINS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84891767664     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.10.020     Document Type: Article

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