The document is a travel grant application by Christian Jaques Hissom to present research conducted over the summer investigating the functional significance of neurons in the thalamus and motor cortex related to motor learning. It provides details of the research conducted, including training rats in a motor task, selectively ablating neuron populations, analyzing behavioral changes, and proposed future research. The application requests funding to present this research at the Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM in Washington D.C. in February 2014.