Plumes of neuronal activity propagate in three dimensions through the nuclear avian brain

BMC Biology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Beckers, Gabriël J L ^a,b   van der Meij, Jacqueline ^a   Lesku, John A ^a,c   Rattenborg, Niels C ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bird; Cortex; Propagation; Sleep; Slow waves; Travelling

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FINCH; FOREBRAIN; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; VIDEORECORDING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN WAVES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FINCHES; NEURONS; PROSENCEPHALON; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84899483121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-12-16     Document Type: Article

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