Nature Communications (May 2018)

Two-photon imaging of neuronal activity in motor cortex of marmosets during upper-limb movement tasks

  • Teppei Ebina,
  • Yoshito Masamizu,
  • Yasuhiro R. Tanaka,
  • Akiya Watakabe,
  • Reiko Hirakawa,
  • Yuka Hirayama,
  • Riichiro Hira,
  • Shin-Ichiro Terada,
  • Daisuke Koketsu,
  • Kazuo Hikosaka,
  • Hiroaki Mizukami,
  • Atsushi Nambu,
  • Erika Sasaki,
  • Tetsuo Yamamori,
  • Masanori Matsuzaki

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04286-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Marmosets are an important model organism in neuroscience but there has only been limited success in training them on behavioral tasks. Here the authors report their ability to train marmosets in various motor tasks and simultaneously image neural dynamics in motor cortex with 2-photon imaging.