Neuronal activity in medial frontal cortex during learning of sequential procedures

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 2671-2687

  Nakamura, Kae ^a,c   Sakai, Katsuyuki ^a,b   Hikosaka, Okihide ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c CENTER FOR THE NEURAL BASIS OF COGNITION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FRONTAL CORTEX; LEARNING; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MALE; MEMORY; MONKEY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031760771     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.80.5.2671     Document Type: Article

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