Neurophysiology and Behaviour for Non-Human Primates
Prof. Leonardo Fogassi and Stefano Rozzi
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| Involvement of the lateral prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia of macaque monkeys in functions such as visuo-motor learning and behavior guidance based on social and non-social contextual information, assessed through the study of chronically recorded neural activity both at single neuron and population level |
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| Electrophysiological recording of multiunit activity and individual neurons through chronic multielectrode implants; Training of non-human primates through the use of operating conditioning techniques; Recording of eye movements |
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| ▪ Non-human primate restraint chairs and conditioning apparatus. ▪ Electrophysiological recording set-up, including tools such as the hardware-software system Open-Ephys and AlphaLab, used for the recording and acquisition of neural activity and behavioral events, as well as Labview and Monkeylogic used to control the behavioral task ▪ Neural data processing softwares, including Mountainsort, for the automatic offline sorting of waveforms, NeuroExplorer, through which the pre-processing and visualization of neural data is carried out, and Matlab and Python for data analysis |
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