Activation of the ventral and mesial frontal cortex of the monkey by self-initiated movement tasks as revealed by positron emission tomography

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 258, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 117-120

  Tsujimoto, Toru ^a   Ogawa, Masafumi ^b   Tsukada, Hideo ^c   Kakiuchi, Takeharu ^c   Sasaki, Kazuo ^a,d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cingulate area; Monkey; Orbitofrontal area; Positron emission tomography; Pre supplementary motor area; Self initiated movement task

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; FRONTAL CORTEX; MONKEY; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACACA; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0032545143     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00868-4     Document Type: Article

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