Interhemispheric claustral circuits coordinate sensory and motor cortical areas that regulate exploratory behaviors

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Smith, Jared B ^a   Alloway, Kevin D ^a,b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Claustrum; Frontal eye fields; Motor cortex; Neuronal tracing; Sensorimotor; Somatosensory cortex; Visual cortex; Visuomotor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN HISTOLOGY; CLAUSTRUM; COORDINATION; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; EYE MOVEMENT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; INTRACRANIAL MICROSTIMULATION; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STRIATE CORTEX; TOPOGRAPHY; VIBRISSA; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84901262710     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00093     Document Type: Article

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