Sleep-Dependent Reactivation of Ensembles in Motor Cortex Promotes Skill Consolidation

PLoS Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Ramanathan, Dhakshin S ^a,b   Gulati, Tanuj ^a,c   Ganguly, Karunesh ^a,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RAT; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; LONG EVANS RAT; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; NEURONS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SLEEP;

EID: 84943170817     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002263     Document Type: Article

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