Representation of immediate and final behavioral goals in the monkey prefrontal cortex during an instructed delay period

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1535-1546

  Saito, Naohiro ^a,b   Mushiake, Hajime ^a,b   Sakamoto, Kazuhiro ^c   Itoyama, Yasuto ^a   Tanji, Jun ^a,b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Action planning; Behavioral goals; Maze; Monkey; Problem solving; Single cell recording

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EYE MOVEMENTS; GOALS; MACACA; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICROELECTRODES; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RETINA; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 25144449580     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhi032     Document Type: Article

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