A spike-timing mechanism for action selection

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 962-970

  Von Reyn, Catherine R ^a   Breads, Patrick ^a   Peek, Martin Y ^a   Zheng, Grace Zhiyu ^a   Williamson, W Ryan ^a   Yee, Alyson L ^a   Leonardo, Anthony ^a   Card, Gwyneth M ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLIGHT; FORCE; INTERNEURON; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MALE; NERVE; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; STIMULUS; VELOCITY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR COORDINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; ESCAPE REACTION; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NERVE NET; ODONATA; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84903375741     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3741     Document Type: Article

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