Pathway-specific reorganization of projection neurons in somatosensory cortex during learning

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1101-1108

  Chen, Jerry L ^a   Margolis, David J ^a,b,d   Stankov, Atanas ^a,b   Sumanovski, Lazar T ^a   Schneider, Bernard L ^c   Helmchen, Fritjof ^a,b  

^a University of Zurich Brain Research Institute   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; KINEMATICS; LEARNING; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOMECHANICS; DIAGNOSTIC USE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; LASER SCANNING CYTOMETRY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TOUCH; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VIBRISSA;

CALCIUM;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CALCIUM; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); LASER SCANNING CYTOMETRY; LEARNING; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; OPTICAL IMAGING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84938419951     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4046     Document Type: Article

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