Prefrontal interactions reflect future task operations

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 75-81

  Sakai, Katsuyuki ^a   Passingham, Richard E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0037218793     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn987     Document Type: Article

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