Functional prefrontal cortical circuitry for visuospatial working memory formation: A computational model

Neurocomputing

Volumn 26-27, Issue , 1999, Pages 891-899

  Tanaka, Shoji ^a   Okada, Shuhei ^a  

^a SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cortical circuit; Delay period activity; Local inhibition; Short term memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BIOLOGY; CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

CORTICAL CIRCUIT; DELAY PERIOD ACTIVITY; LOCAL INHIBITION; MONKEY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SHORT TERM MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER MODEL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0032865039     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-2312(98)00134-9     Document Type: Article

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