Firing characteristics of deep layer neurons in prefrontal cortex in rats performing spatial working memory tasks

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 437-450

  Jung, Min W ^a,b,d,e   Qin, Yulin ^a,b,f   McNaughton, Bruce L ^a,b,c,g   Barnes, Carol A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Institute for Medical Sciences   (South Korea)

^e Ajou University   (South Korea)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031816879     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/8.5.437     Document Type: Article

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