Chronic, cortex-wide imaging of specific cell populations during behavior

Joao Couto, Simon Musall, Xiaonan R. Sun, Anup Khanal, Steven Gluf, Shreya Saxena, Ian Kinsella, Taiga Abe, John P. Cunningham, Liam Paninski, Anne K. Churchland

Published: 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1038/s41596-021-00527-z

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Measurements of neuronal activity across brain areas are important for understanding the neural correlates of cognitive and motor processes such as attention, decision-making and action selection. However, techniques that allow cellular resolution measure
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Chronic, cortex-wide imaging of specific cell populations during behavior

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Extended Data Fig. 1 Photobleaching due to repeated or high-power imaging.

Extended Data Fig. 2 Steps for setup calibration.

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