Prefrontal Neuronal Activity Encodes Spatial Target Representations Sequentially Updated after Nonspatial Target-Shift Cues

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1367-1380

  Fukushima, Tetsuya ^a   Hasegawa, Isao ^a   Miyashita, Yasushi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR; MALE; MONKEY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CUES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MACACA; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURONS; POPULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 1342280519     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00306.2003     Document Type: Article

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