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SUBMITTER: Namboodiri VM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4393368 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Neuron 20150326 1
Most behaviors are generated in three steps: sensing the external world, processing that information to instruct decision-making, and producing a motor action. Sensory areas, especially primary sensory cortices, have long been held to be involved only in the first step of this sequence. Here, we develop a visually cued interval timing task that requires rats to decide when to perform an action following a brief visual stimulus. Using single-unit recordings and optogenetics in this task, we show ...[more]