Representation of interval timing by temporally scalable firing patterns in rat prefrontal cortex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 480-485

  Xu, Min ^a,b   Zhang, Si Yu ^a,b   Dan, Yang ^b   Poo, Mu Ming ^a  

^a Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People s Hospital   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE CELL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 84891958930     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1321314111     Document Type: Article

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