Signal flow in a prefrontal cortical circuit model for working memory loading

Neurocomputing

Volumn 38-40, Issue , 2001, Pages 957-964

  Tanaka, Shoji ^a   Yoshida, Akira ^a  

^a SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Delay period activity; Intracortical inhibition; Layer; Prefrontal cortex; Working memory

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DELAY CIRCUITS;

NEURONS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL POPULATION; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0035384005     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-2312(01)00410-6     Document Type: Article

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