Complex locomotion in naturalistic environments requiring careful coordination of the limbs involves regions of the parietal cortex. The following protocol describes the use of reversible cooling-induced deactivation to demonstrate the role of parietal area 5 in memory-guided obstacle avoidance in the walking cat.
Wong, C., Lomber, S. G. Reversible Cooling-induced Deactivations to Study Cortical Contributions to Obstacle Memory in the Walking Cat. J. Vis. Exp. (130), e56196, doi:10.3791/56196 (2017).