Motor Cortex Is Required for Learning but Not for Executing a Motor Skill

Neuron

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 800-812

  Kawai, Risa ^a   Markman, Timothy ^a   Poddar, Rajesh ^a   Ko, Raymond ^a   Fantana, Antoniu L ^a   Dhawale, Ashesh K ^a   Kampff, Adam R ^a,b   Ölveczky, Bence P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHAMPALIMAUD CENTRE FOR THE UNKNOWN   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREFOOT; LEARNING; LIMB MOVEMENT; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR LEARNING; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBCORTEX; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INJURIES; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; REWARD; STATISTICS; STEREOTYPY;

IBOTENIC ACID;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FORELIMB; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84929042987     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.03.024     Document Type: Article

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