Neural coding: time contraction and dilation in the striatum.
How the brain encodes time is poorly understood. New research on rats provides evidence that striatal neurons encode time, and that the code can dilate or contract to time different intervals.
Departments of Neurobiology and Psychology, Integrative Center for Learning and Memory, Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Helen
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Motanis
Departments of Neurobiology and Psychology, Integrative Center for Learning and Memory, Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. Electronic address: dbuono@ucla.edu.
Dean V
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Buonomano
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