Delay-period activity in the primate prefrontal cortex encoding multiple spatial positions and their order of presentation

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 84, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 203-223

  Funahashi, Shintaro ^a   Inoue, Masato ^a   Kubota, Kisou ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

delay period activity; monkey; pair dependent activity; position dependent activity; prefrontal cortex; sequential reaching behavior; spatial working memory; temporal order dependent activity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SPATIAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CUES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031054776     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(96)00151-9     Document Type: Article

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