Attentional selection and action selection in the ventral and orbital prefrontal cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 50, 2005, Pages 11628-11636

  Rushworth, Matthew F S ^a,b   Buckley, Mark J ^a   Gough, Patricia M ^a   Alexander, Iona H ^a   Kyriazis, Diana ^a   McDonald, Kathryn R ^a   Passingham, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Experimental Psychology ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action selection; Attention; Conditional motor learning; Lesion; Macaque; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 30744467425     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2765-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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