Ventral prefrontal cortex is not essential for working memory

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 4829-4838

  Rushworth, Matthew F S ^a   Nixon, Philip D ^a   Eacott, Madeline J ^b   Passingham, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Area 12; Area 47; Inferior convexity; Object vision; Positron emission tomography; Prefrontal cortex; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0030999311     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-12-04829.1997     Document Type: Article

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