Rhythmic Whisking Area (RW) in Rat Primary Motor Cortex: An Internal Monitor of Movement-Related Signals?
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Anticipatory activity of motor cortex in relation to rhythmic whisking.
Rats characteristically generate stereotyped exploratory (5-12 Hz) whisker movements, which can also be adaptively modulated. Here we tested the hypothesis that the vibrissal representation in motor cortex (vMCx) initiates and modulates whisking by acting on a subcortical whisking central pattern generator (CPG). We recorded local field potentials (LFPs) in vMCx of behaving Sprague-Dawley rats ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0270-6474,1529-2401
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0337-13.2013