Evidence for the transient nature of a neural system supporting goal-directed action

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 748-752

  West, Robert ^a   Alain, Claude ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOW BRAIN WAVE;

EID: 0033860591     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/10.8.748     Document Type: Article

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