# behav: brain; neural cells tuned to posture

AA << identified neurons in the posterior parietal cortex and the frontal motor cortex that were associated with changes in posture. So close were the associations that the researchers could actually predict which posture a rat was assuming by simply watching neural activity in these two brain regions. >>

In a Perspective piece, Guifen Chen << wonders if neurons associated with posture become active only when a posture is achieved, or if they continue firing as that posture is held in place. >>

Bob Yirka. Researchers find neural cells in rat brain that are tuned to posture. Medical Xpress. Nov 2, 2018.

https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2018-11-neural-cells-rat-brain-tuned.html

Bartul Mimica, Benjamin A. Dunn, et al.  Efficient cortical coding of 3D posture in freely behaving rats. Science  02 Nov 2018: Vol. 362, Issue 6414, pp. 584-589
DOI: 10.1126/science.aau2013.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6414/584 

Guifen Chen. Identifying posture cells in the brain. Science  02 Nov 2018:
Vol. 362, Issue 6414, pp. 520-521
DOI: 10.1126/science.aav3819.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6414/520