Event-related functional MRI of awake behaving pigeons at 7T

oleh: Mehdi Behroozi, Xavier Helluy, Felix Ströckens, Meng Gao, Roland Pusch, Sepideh Tabrik, Martin Tegenthoff, Tobias Otto, Nikolai Axmacher, Robert Kumsta, Dirk Moser, Erhan Genc, Onur Güntürkün

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2020-09-01

Deskripsi

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a powerful method to understand neural mechanisms of cognition but imaging of small animals can be challenging. The authors present an event-related fMRI platform to visualize the neural fundaments of perceptual and cognitive functions in awake birds.