Variability in neuronal activity in primate cortex during working memory tasks

Neuroscience

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1082-1108

  Shafi, M ^a   Zhou, Y ^b   Quintana, J ^a   Chow, C ^c   Fuster, J ^a   Bodner, M ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d MIND Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

computational models; memory networks; monkeys; parietal cortex; prefrontal cortex; spike trains

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMORY CELL; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MONKEY; NETWORK LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKING MEMORY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HAPLORHINI; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 34248148190     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.12.072     Document Type: Article

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