Neural activity in the primate prefrontal cortex during associative learning

Neuron

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1399-1407

  Asaad, Wael F ^a   Rainer, Gregor ^a   Miller, Earl K ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; MONKEY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032407972     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80658-3     Document Type: Article

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