Yesterday my duties in the lab entailed the following:
1) Assisted recording of spinally-evoked muscle activation in a sedated baboon. (3 hours)
2) In a behaving macaque, verified correlational-linkage between a pre-central cortical neuron and wrist flexor and extensor muscles. (1.5 hours)
3) In a behaving macaque, operantly conditioned co- and reciprocal-activation of a cortico-motoneuronal cell and two of its target muscles. (2.5 hours)
4) Using pulses of behaviorally-reinforcing stimulation triggered from action potentials of the same cortico-motoneuronal cell, operantly conditioned elevated cell firing of that neuron, in a behaving macaque. (3 hours)
5) Delivered a continuous train of 5 Hz stimulation to the reward site to test post-stimulus activation of the conditioned cortical neuron. (0.2 hours)
6) Continued corticomotoneuronal spike-triggered spinal stimulation conditioning to test for feature-changes peri-spike averages of electromyography. (0.2 hours)
7) Setup overnight corticomotoneuronal spike-triggered simulation of nucleus accumbens to potentially condition elevated activation of the triggering cortical neuron. (1 hour)
