Transient neuronal correlations underlying goal selection and maintenance in prefrontal cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2748-2761

  Tsujimoto, Satoshi ^a   Genovesio, Aldo ^a   Wise, Steven P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional selection; Behavioral neurophysiology; Cell assemblies; Frontal lobe; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EYE POSITION; FRONTAL LOBE; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BONE SCREWS; CRANIOTOMY; FIXATION, OCULAR; FRONTAL LOBE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RESEARCH; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SACCADES; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 56449124751     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn033     Document Type: Article

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