A microcircuit model of prefrontal functions: Ying and Yang of reverberatory neurodynamics in cognition

The Frontal Lobes: Development, Function, and Pathology

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 92-127

  Wang, Xiao Jing ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511545917.006     Document Type: Chapter

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