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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: 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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18437-1