Enhancement of object representations in primate perirhinal cortex during a visual working-memory task

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1298-1310

  Lehky, Sidney R ^a,c   Tanaka, Keiji ^a,b  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; MACACA; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846911709     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00167.2006     Document Type: Article

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