Neuronal interactions related to working memory processes in the primate prefrontal cortex revealed by cross-correlation analysis

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 535-551

  Funahashi, Shintaro ^a   Inoue, Masato ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATENT PERIOD; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SPIKE; VISUAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0034114981     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/10.6.535     Document Type: Article

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