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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS
Volume 101, Issue 2, Pages 157-164Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(00)00263-6
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barn owl; multi-channel telemetry; awake behaving bird; single-unit recording; visual forebrain
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Wireless radiotelemetric transmission of neuronal activity is an elegant technique to study brain-behavior interaction in unrestrained animals. In the current study, a miniature FM-stereo radio transmitter is described that permitted simultaneous recordings from two microelectrodes in behaving barn owls. Input from two independent channels is multiplexed to form a stereo composite signal that modulates a radio frequency carrier. The high quality of broadcasted extracellular signals enabled separation of single units based on differences in spike waveforms. Recording several single cells from different electrodes allows the possibility of investigating correlations between small, distributed neuronal ensembles. Multi-channel radiotelemetry that meets the demands of modern electrophysiology might open a new perspective for combined behavioral/neurophysiological approaches in freely-behaving animals. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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