Phase-amplitude coupling in rat orbitofrontal cortex discriminates between correct and incorrect decisions during associative learning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 493-505

  van Wingerden, Marijn ^a,b   van der Meij, Roemer ^c   Kalenscher, Tobias ^b   Maris, Eric ^c   Pennartz, Cyriel M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decision making; Learning; OFC; PAC; Rat; Tetrode

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891924130     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2098-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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