Task-phase-specific dynamics of basal forebrain neuronal ensembles

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Tingley, David ^a   Alexander, Andrew S ^a   Kolbu, Sean ^a   de Sa, Virginia R ^a   Chiba, Andrea A ^a   Nitz, Douglas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Attention; Basal forebrain; Noise; Parietal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN HISTOLOGY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL POPULATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COGNITION; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; FOREBRAIN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE FUNCTION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; SURGERY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84907577545     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00174     Document Type: Article

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