A model of visuospatial working memory in prefrontal cortex: Recurrent network and cellular bistability

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 383-405

  Camperi, Marcelo ^a,b   Wang, Xiao Jing ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bistability; Network attractor dynamics; Prefrontal cortex; Working memory

Indexed keywords

DELAY CIRCUITS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

ATTRACTOR DYNAMICS; BI-STABILITY; CELLULARS; DELAY-PERIOD ACTIVITY; DELAYED RESPONSE; FIRING RATE MODELS; NETWORK ATTRACTOR DYNAMIC; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECURRENT NETWORKS; WORKING MEMORY;

NEURONS;

ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NOISE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; TUNING CURVE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0031762840     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008837311948     Document Type: Article

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