Simultaneously recorded single units in the frontal cortex go through sequences of discrete and stable states in monkeys performing a delayed localization task

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 752-768

  Seidemann, Eyal ^a,c   Meilijson, Isaac ^a   Abeles, Moshe ^b   Bergman, Hagai ^b   Vaadia, Eilon ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

delayed localization; frontal cortex; hidden Markov model; rhesus monkey; spike train analysis; state dynamics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HISTOGRAM; MENTAL FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SPIKE;

EID: 0030044359     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-02-00752.1996     Document Type: Article

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