Neural correlates of memory retrieval in the prefrontal cortex

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 925-936

  Nácher, Verónica ^a   Ojeda, Sabiela ^a   Cadarso Suárez, Carmen ^a   Roca Pardiñas, Javier ^b   Acuña, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Behaving monkeys; Long term memory; Prefrontal cortex; Short term representations; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONSCIOUSNESS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33747204840     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04964.x     Document Type: Article

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