Dynamic Changes of Rodent Somatosensory Barrel Cortex Are Correlated with Learning a 1 Novel Conditioned Stimulus 2 Abbreviated Title: the Dynamics of Learning in the Rat Barrel Cortex 3 4 Introduction
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*Correspondence: 12 Jose M. Carmena 13 University of California Berkeley 14 754 Sutardja Dai Hall, MC# 1764 15 Berkeley, CA94720, USA. 16 Tel: +1-510-643-2430 17 e-mail:[email protected] 18 19 Number of pages: 33 20 Number of words 21 Abstract: 250 22 Introduction: 549 23 Discussion: 1494 24 Acknowledgements: The authors wish to thank S. Venkatraman for assistance with the 3-axis 25 accelerometer and microstimulation, and S. Overduin for comments on earlier versions of the 26 manuscript. The research reported here was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan foundation, the 27 Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, and the National Science Foundation CAREER 28 Award # 0954243 to J.M.C. 29 30 Articles in PresS. J Neurophysiol (March 6, 2013). doi:10.1152/jn.00553.2012
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