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Studies were carried out in conscious cats with recording of multicellular activity in moderate hunger and after 24-h food deprivation. Cross-correlation analysis was used to assess statistical interneuron interactions between closely-located neurons in the frontal and sensorimotor regions of the neocortex (local networks), and between the cells of these regions (distributed networks). One-day food deprivation increased the number of interactions formed within both local and distributed neuron networks. Increases in intercortical connections between the frontal and motor regions was seen at all time intervals studied (0–100 msec), though the most significant changes occurred at time intervals of up to 30 msec.
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Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology. Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Translated from Zhurnal Vysshei Nervnoi Deyatel'nosti, Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 513–520, May–June, 1996.
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Merzhanova, G.K., Dolbakyan, É.E. Time organization of frontal-motor cortex interneuron interactions in the cat neocortex in conditions of different levels of food motivation. Neurosci Behav Physiol 27, 360–366 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02462936
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