Encoding of behavioral significance of visual stimuli by primate prefrontal neurons: relation to relevant task conditions

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 423-436

  Sakagami, Masamichi ^a   Niki, Hiroaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behavioral significance; Monkey; Prefrontal cortex; Single unit activity; Task relevance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; COLOR; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIGHT; MALE; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FIXATION, OCULAR; FORM PERCEPTION; MACACA; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0028296177     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00241536     Document Type: Article

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