Neural mechanisms of spatial working memory: Contributions of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the thalamic mediodorsal nucleus

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 409-420

  Funahashi, Shintaro ^a   Takeda, Kazuyoshi ^a,b   Watanabe, Yumiko ^a,c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL TASK; MONKEY; MOTOR CONTROL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPATIAL MEMORY; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 14844293099     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/CABN.4.4.409     Document Type: Article

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