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SUBMITTER: Xu S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3288189 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xu Shengjin S Jiang Wanchen W Poo Mu-Ming MM Dan Yang Y
Nature neuroscience 20120122 3
Cue-triggered recall of learned temporal sequences is an important cognitive function that has been attributed to higher brain areas. Here recordings in both anesthetized and awake rats demonstrate that after repeated stimulation with a moving spot that evoked sequential firing of an ensemble of primary visual cortex (V1) neurons, just a brief flash at the starting point of the motion path was sufficient to evoke a sequential firing pattern that reproduced the activation order evoked by the movi ...[more]