Top-down signal from prefrontal cortex in executive control of memory retrieval

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6754, 1999, Pages 699-703

  Tomita, Hyoe ^a   Ohbayashi, Machike ^a   Nakahara, Kiyoshi ^b   Hasegawa, Isao ^a,b   Miyashita, Yasushi ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; COGNITION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CUES; MACACA; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 0033554697     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/44372     Document Type: Article

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