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SUBMITTER: Behroozi M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7501281 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20200918 1
Animal-fMRI is a powerful method to understand neural mechanisms of cognition, but it remains a major challenge to scan actively participating small animals under low-stress conditions. Here, we present an event-related functional MRI platform in awake pigeons using single-shot RARE fMRI to investigate the neural fundaments for visually-guided decision making. We established a head-fixated Go/NoGo paradigm, which the animals quickly learned under low-stress conditions. The animals were motivated ...[more]