Hierarchical coding for sequential task events in the monkey prefrontal cortex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 33, 2008, Pages 11969-11974

  Sigala, Natasha ^a,b,c   Kusunoki, Makoto ^a,b   Nimmo Smith, Ian ^b   Gaffan, David ^a   Duncan, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Correlated coding; Orthogonal coding; Pair associative task; Sequence representation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTAL LOBE; MALE; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MACACA MULATTA; MEMORY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 50149084877     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802569105     Document Type: Article

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