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Intracortical cartography in an agranular area
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Untangling neural networks with dual retrograde transsynaptic viral infection
Shinya Ohara, Ken-ichi Inoue, Menno P. Witter and Toshio Iijima
Using recombinant rabies virus (RV), we developed a dual transsynaptic retrograde tracing technique in the rat central nervous system. Two strains of recombinant RV, injected into two...
Reward networks in the brain as captured by connectivity measures
Estela Camara, Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, Zheng Ye and Thomas F. Münte
An assortment of human behaviors is thought to be driven by rewards including reinforcement learning, novelty processing, learning, decision making, economic choice, incentive motivation,...
Trends in programming languages for neuroscience simulations
Andrew P. Davison, Michael Hines and Eilif Muller
Neuroscience simulators allow scientists to express models in terms of biological concepts, without having to concern themselves with low-level computational details of their...
Micropatterned substrates for studying astrocytes in culture
William Lee and Vladimir Parpura
Recent studies of the physiological roles of astrocytes have ignited renewed interest in the functional significance of these glial cells in the central nervous system. Many of the newly...
Relating population-code representations between man, monkey, and computational models
Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
Perceptual and cognitive content is thought to be represented in the brain by patterns of activity across populations of neurons. In order to test whether a computational model can explain...
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