Parallel processing by cortical inhibition enables context-dependent behavior

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 62-71

  Kuchibhotla, Kishore V ^a,b   Gill, Jonathan V ^a,b   Lindsay, Grace W ^c   Papadoyannis, Eleni S ^a,b   Field, Rachel E ^a,b   Sten, Tom A Hindmarsh ^a,b   Miller, Kenneth D ^c   Froemke, Robert C ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARVALBUMIN; SOMATOSTATIN; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AXON; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVATION; CHOLINERGIC AXON; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTEXT DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; CONTEXT SWITCHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL INHIBITION; EXCITATORY NEURON; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FACILITATION; HEARING; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTERNEURON; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MOUSE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PASSIVE LISTENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TWO PHOTON CALCIUM IMAGING; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; SOMATOSTATIN; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84992752863     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4436     Document Type: Article

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