Temporally Irregular Mnemonic Persistent Activity in Prefrontal Neurons of Monkeys during a Delayed Response Task

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 3441-3454

  Compte, Albert ^a,b   Constantinidis, Christos ^c   Tegnér, Jesper ^a,d,e   Raghavachari, Sridhar ^a   Chafee, Matthew V ^c   Goldman Rakic, Patricia S ^c   Wang, Xiao Jing ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d SCFAB   (Sweden)

^e LINKÖPING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FREQUENCY MODULATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNEURON; MALE; MEMORY; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0142141491     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00949.2002     Document Type: Article

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