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dc.contributor.authorLapray, Damien
dc.date.accessioned2009-05-26T11:59:35Z
dc.date.available2009-05-26T13:59:35Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier.urihttps://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/4347-
dc.description.abstractDuring this thesis a new telemetric recording system has been developed allowing ECoG/EEG recordings in freely behaving rodents (Lapray et al., 2008; Lapray et al., in press). This unit has been shown to not generate any discomfort in the implanted animals and to allow recordings in a wide range of environments. In the second part of this work the developed technique has been used to investigate what cortical activity was related to the process of novelty detection in rats’ barrel cortex. We showed that the detection of a novel object is accompanied in the barrel cortex by a transient burst of activity in the γ frequency range (40-47 Hz) around 200 ms after the whiskers contact with the object (Lapray et al., accepted). This activity was associated to a decrease in the lower range of γ frequencies (30-37 Hz). This network activity may represent the optimal oscillatory pattern for the propagation and storage of new information in memory related structures. The frequency as well as the timing of appearance correspond well with other studies concerning novelty detection related burst of activity in other sensory systems (Barcelo et al., 2006; Haenschel et al., 2000; Ranganath & Rainer, 2003). Here, the burst of activity is well suited to induce plastic and long-lasting modifications in neuronal circuits (Harris et al., 2003). The debate is still open whether synchronised activity in the brain is a part of information processing or an epiphenomenon (Shadlen & Movshon, 1999; Singer, 1999). The present work provides further evidence that neuronal network activity in the γ frequency range plays an important role in the neocortical processing of sensory stimuli and in higher cognitive functions.en_GB
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subject.ddc570 Biowissenschaftende_DE
dc.subject.ddc570 Life sciencesen_GB
dc.titleStimulus-induced gamma activity in the electrocorticogram of freely moving telemetric implanted rats: the neuronal signature of novelty detectionen_GB
dc.typeDissertationde_DE
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:hebis:77-19997
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-4345-
jgu.type.dinitypedoctoralThesis
jgu.type.versionOriginal worken_GB
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jgu.organisation.departmentFB 10 Biologie-
jgu.organisation.year2009
jgu.organisation.number7970-
jgu.organisation.nameJohannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz-
jgu.rights.accessrightsopenAccess-
jgu.organisation.placeMainz-
jgu.subject.ddccode570
opus.date.accessioned2009-05-26T11:59:35Z
opus.date.modified2009-05-26T11:59:35Z
opus.date.available2009-05-26T13:59:35
opus.organisation.stringFB 10: Biologie: FB 10: Biologiede_DE
opus.identifier.opusid1999
opus.institute.number1000
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