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

Behavioral State--Getting "In The Zone"

Joseph B Wekselblatt  1 , Cristopher M Niell  2
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Behavioral State--Getting "In The Zone"

Joseph B Wekselblatt et al. Neuron. .

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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Figure 1. The Yerkes-Dodson Relationship and Its Neural Correlates, as Observed by McGinley et al
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