Behavioral State--Getting "In The Zone"

Joseph B Wekselblatt; Cristopher M Niell

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.06.020

Behavioral State--Getting "In The Zone"

Neuron. 2015 Jul 1;87(1):7-9. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.06.020.

Authors

Joseph B Wekselblatt¹, Cristopher M Niell²

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Neuroscience and Department of Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA.
² Institute of Neuroscience and Department of Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

Abstract

In this issue of Neuron, McGinley et al. (2015) investigate a classic observation from psychology linking arousal state with behavioral performance, demonstrating neural correlates of an "optimal" state for an auditory detection task.

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Animals
Arousal / physiology*
Auditory Cortex / physiology*
Auditory Perception / physiology*
Membrane Potentials / physiology*
Neurons / physiology*
Signal Detection, Psychological / physiology*

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