Functional significance of delay-period activity of primate prefrontal neurons in relation to spatial working memory and reward/omission-of-reward expectancy

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 263-276

  Watanabe, Masataka ^a   Hikosaka, Kazuo ^a   Sakagami, Masamichi ^a,b   Shirakawa, Shu Ichiro ^a,c  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Delayed response; Monkey; Prefrontal cortex; Reward; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL ACTIVITY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; MACACA; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 26044438780     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-2358-y     Document Type: Article

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