Patterned firing of parietal cells in a haptic working memory task

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2538-2546

  Bodner, Mark ^a,b   Shafi, M ^a   Zhou, Y D ^c   Fuster, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MIND Institute   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Haptic working memory; Monkeys; Parietal cortex; Recurrent networks; Spike patterns

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERNED FIRING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE WAVE; STATISTICS; TACTILE STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; HAPLORHINI; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NERVE NET; NEURONS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 20444450645     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04085.x     Document Type: Article

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